It also raised state-set prices of diesel to lower its subsidy payout as part of a plan to reduce its budget deficit.
It has also raised state-set prices of diesel to lower its subsidy payout, besides setting up a panel to fast-track large industrial projects.
Since September, the government has taken several measures to boost economic activity, such as allowing foreign supermarket chains to set up shop in India, permitting foreign airlines to buy stakes in local carriers and raising the state-regulated prices of some fuels.
This is because the strain on subsidies is bound to increase as the government usually raises the state-assured prices paid to farmers every year for procuring food grain stocks, while the supply price would remain frozen under the proposed law, he added.
While it appears a truism to state that commodity prices are set to continue their bull runs in the first half of 2011, a more precise look coming from one of the most interested parties in the game, Rio Tinto, provides additional support and key insight into risks facing prices for iron ore, coal, copper, and aluminum.
FORBES: Watch Out In Iron Ore, Coal, Copper When Easy Money Policies Are Done, Says Rio Tinto
In Iran, falling government income from oil sales is causing prices for state-subsidized goods to soar.
FORBES: Economist: Beware Desperate Mullahs As New Sanctions Shock Iran Oil Sales
However, concerns of intermittent spikes in inflation still remain due to regular increases in state-set fuel prices.
Despite Saudi efforts, their Muscovite counterparts were simply in no fit state to help moderate prices across non-OPEC production.
Single-payer takes a different approach to cost-savings, using the leverage of a single insurer (the state) to keep prices down.
The sudden advances in hydraulic fracking have lowered it to an unnatural state: the current prices are probably only temporary.
But these incentives may not outweigh the drawbacks of state-controlled gas prices.
It has allowed small but regular increases in state-set diesel prices and allowed more foreign investment in a number of sectors, including retail and aviation.
He said he would sue four more companies that he accuses of participating in some of the biggest jumps in gas prices in state history.
Today, news is that Schlichter (51) is set to accept a plea agreement to charges associated with selling promises to deliver tickets for Ohio State games at discounted prices.
FORBES: Former Ohio State QB, Art Schlichter, To Plead Guilty To Fed Charges
Since September, the government has taken several fiscal reform measures such as allowing regular increases in state-set discounted prices of diesel and capping the number of LPG cylinders available to families at subsidized rates.
Alas, the grade is not higher because electricity prices are primarily matters of state, not federal, regulation and state policies have a lot more to do with those prices than do federal policies.
FORBES: Scoring Romney & Obama's Disappointing Energy Debate
That helped keep prices up and state and local tax revenues up.
FORBES: The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Hellish, And It's On Its Way
The surefire sign of the Fed's restrictiveness is the depressed state of commodities, with prices remaining far below those of two years ago.
"They are some of the highest in the nation, " said Howard Goldstein, a New Jersey-based liquor license appraiser, about the state's liquor permit prices.
If the economy were then in a dire state, equity and property prices would have plunged and the assets would not cover the liability.
ECONOMIST: The retired are always supported by their children
Lenders in Georgia have saturated the marketplace with a tremendous amount of foreclosure inventory this year, causing a dramatic drop in prices across the state.
China has said that shale-gas pricing will be market-based, which is vague but suggests that producers can charge higher prices than the state-controlled system currently allows.
Maryland is a small state and if lower gas prices spurred people to drive longer distances for their vacations, Marylanders might end up buying more in Pennsylvania or Virginia.
FORBES: Don't Cut The Gas Tax For Summer Holidays, Double It
Despite help with research from the state-owned bank, and finance from a state agency, low cattle prices meant that the ranchers could never raise enough capital to keep the co-operative going.
ECONOMIST: Can the rules be bent just enough to keep them alive?
And over the past few months, the economy has experienced some tough headwinds -- from natural disasters, to spikes in gas prices, to state and local budget cuts that have cost tens of thousands of cops and firefighters and teachers their jobs.
For the moment, the state of America's house prices depends on what measure you use.
These cities didn't see the same dramatic run-ups in prices as many Sand State cities did between 2001 and 2006.
应用推荐