For two consecutive quarters, Aetna has seen net income spike up sharply despite a small percentage downdraft in revenues.
What caused the spike up over the past several trading days was an imbalance or overabundance of sellers versus buyers.
That would spike up the top marginal tax rate, demolishing supply-side tax principles that Republican administrations have purportedly followed for 26 years.
It all came together to lead to a dramatic spike up in prices paid for tulip bulbs in 1636 before the market completely collapsed in February 1637.
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We see a big spike up in traffic on tablets at 8 a.m. just before people come into the office, and again on the couch after work.
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Your credit score won't suffer if you are merely a few days late making a payment, though you may be charged a late fee and the interest rate charged may spike up.
And the fact of the matter is, is that if they even approach the amount of car ownership that we have, oil will run out very quickly and on the way, prices will just spike up naturally, no matter what we do.
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.
It did stumble a bit this week, spooked by the spike-up in oil prices created by the spreading unrest in oil-producing countries, notably Libya.
Also technically, the unusual spike-up of the last five days has the major indexes already short-term overbought above their 21-day moving averages, the opposite of their short-term oversold condition two weeks ago.
Movie director Spike Lee showed up inside Bankers Life Fieldhouse for Game 3 in a Knicks jersey and orange hat.
"We are very cognizant that this does not mean there's been a straight-up spike in nonbelievers, " said Paul Fidalgo, communications director for the Center for Inquiry, a secular advocacy group.
Were Thomas Jefferson to come back alive and see the same slide, he would spike a football and throw up his hands in triumph!
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The Labor Department is reporting a spike in weekly jobless claims, up 28, 000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 385, 000.
Through intensive one-on-one exchanges with teachers and special tools like picture cards, Spike started learning how to speak up, rather than act out, when he was uncomfortable.
The U.S. dollar index is trading near steady Monday morning, but has moved well up from its early spike low that was scored on the Cyprus news, and is now trading near the daily high.
They understood that the huge spike in spending in the years leading up to the crisis could not be sustained.
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Drucker cited the example of a rapidly growing consumer goods business that announced a pending price increase and saw its sales spike by 50% and then abruptly dry up the following year, forcing the firm into bankruptcy.
In a CNBC interview from Davos last week, legendary financier George Soros had a clear and loud message about US interest rates: They will spike as soon as the US economy picks up steam this year.
The same with copper, silver, any commodity the hedge funds could load up on in hopes of playing the spike.
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The working group was first set up last year when we saw a spike in oil prices and prices at the pump for Americans.
Though they help some people pay for important procedures, the cards come with a number of drawbacks that may not be apparent at sign-up, including rates that can quickly spike.
The causes of 1990-91 and 2007-09 were similar: Real estate collapse, stock market turbulence, financial engineering turkeys come home to roost, loan failures, taxes going up, a Middle Eastern war, a spike in oil prices and everybody de-leveraging at once.
Rounding up the cast is Masha's boy-toy Spike (a splendidly buoyant Billy Magnussen), a housekeeper convinced she can see the future (a very game Shalita Grant) and an ethereal neighbor (the fairy-ish Genevieve Angelson).
Moreover, in 2008, a nearly trillion yuan stimulus program had developers building up China residential properties in hopes that the urban trend would spike.
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If gas prices spike and suddenly auto buyers want more electric or hybrid cars, just ramp up production of those models.
"I think just getting up, going to make the throw, I caught my front spike on the lip of the grass, and then in order to try to catch my balance, all my weight went on my right foot, and I turned it over, " Turner said.
Ben Bernanke has no choice but to engineer an interest rate spike to dampen inflationary fires and rescue the dollar, taking the Fed funds rate up to a Volkeresque 18%.
With the R-22 price spike HDSN can now pay contractors for the dirty gas thereby getting supply to clean up and decreasing the amount of gas that gets into the atmosphere.
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