Grocery stores, in general, have seen a sharp spike in theft as they expand their product offerings beyond food and beverage categories.
Venezuelans fearing the move would mean a sharp spike in the cost of imported goods have rushed to stores in recent days.
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In the seconds before the insight appears, a brain area called the superior anterior temporal gyrus (aSTG) exhibits a sharp spike in activity.
Immersion had been dead money for most of the last decade, excluding a sharp spike leading into the broad market top in 2007.
That is until the last few days, when the turmoil in Egypt spread to oil-producing countries and caused a sharp spike-up in oil prices.
WaMu had a dramatic drop Monday after a sharp spike on Friday when investors looked to JPMorgan Chase to be the savior of the thrift.
This so-called Y2K speedbump is considered a threat to shaky Asian companies not prepared for a sharp spike in orders followed by an evaporation in demand.
This week, the country devalued its currency, creating fear among some Venezuelans that the move would mean a sharp spike in the cost of imported goods.
The fear that interest rates would spike, along with a sharp increase in the financing costs of their short-term debt caused a run for the exits, and many of these high-yield bets were hit hard.
Consumer-price inflation is widely expected to hit 5% this year (more than twice its official target), though the sharp drop in oil prices may blunt that spike.
Turns out, a good chunk of it resulted from the price spike in the quarter for hard disk drives, which saw a sharp fall-off in supply as as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand.
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