The global shortage of cotton led to a speculation that the cotton prices would rise further resulting in hoarding by traders creating an artificial short-supply and driving the prices up in the futures market.
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The tough talk has spurred fears of supply shortages, driving prices higher.
Basically, the companies are increasing supply which is driving down the cost of vaccines and we are increasing demand for the vaccines by aggregating demand and helping developing countries pay for them at a lower, sustainable price.
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Fourth, and most dramatically, De Beers intends to shift its focus from controlling supply and fixing prices to driving demand.
Gas prices should adjust because of a change in the forces driving the underlying supply of or demand for oil, not because stock prices are at a historic high.
The Commons day ends with an adjournment debate led by the Conservative former minister, Sir Paul Beresford, who's concerned that the supply of certified photographs for driving licences and passports should not be left as a Post Office monopoly, and that commercial organisations should be allowed to bid to provide them as well.
Fundamentals are the driving factor this time: supply is tight and demand is growing.
Two years after capital spending is squelched demand will catch up to supply, and profits will reappear, driving a new wave of capital spending.
Now, though these elements are critical components of many electronics, China overwhelmingly controls the supply, and the government is curtailing exports and driving up prices.
Yet the employees who carry out the operations that make up much of a supply chain's individual components, such as driving trucks, overseeing warehouses or operating fork-lifts, are not always treated as though their jobs are important.
Non-market rates of interest set by the Fed are logically driving up demand for capital in concert with a reduction in supply.
Supply side economics posits that record corporate coffers should lead to increased investment, driving increased employment ensuring the sustainability of the economic recovery.
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But he was also subjected to attacks and abuse during his 44 days, with members of the public throwing eggs, driving golf balls at the box and trying to cut his water supply.
The shuttering of various European and U.S. northeast refinery operations of late due to unfavorable margins and a difficult lending environment could also eventually lead to supply-constraint driven gasoline price spikes when demand starts to pick up again towards the summer peak driving season period, say analysts.
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To get a read on whether these measures have made any dent in the real factors driving inflation in China, I'll be looking at net new bank lending and the money supply figures for December and the first couple of months this year.
Supply-siders rightly argue that widespread tax cheating is a sign that taxes are too high, that they are driving productive people into the black market.
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This trade has done a marvelous job of driving up those prices well beyond what would make sense if prices were set solely on the basis of supply and demand for the commodity.
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