So how might customers cut their gas bills by 15% before then to avoid a price hike?
The pharmaceutical companies, for example, are not giving the chemists medicines because they are waiting for a price hike.
Why did it take Netflix until mid-September to address the fallout from a price hike it announced in mid-July?
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Twenty-five cities in November and 12 in October experienced a price hike on a yearly basis, indicating a rally in the housing market.
Reed Hastings needs all the friends he can get at the moment after infuriating people with a price hike that ended up costing Netflix subscribers.
The renewed agreement allows for a price hike of 7% in any of the four years of the six year agreement for both the domain names.
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The movie-rental company didn't back off a price hike it implemented in July, however an increase for which CEO Reed Hastings issued an apology for failing to explain it better.
Urbanchuk did a study comparing a price hike for oil against the same price hike for corn, which in some form or another shows up in a lot of food.
Casey's buys its gas in the spot market, but sometimes it can't recover a price hike immediately at the pump, since some of the competition is buying on long-term contracts and can afford to respond more gradually.
The rocky public relations that Netflix has weathered with a price hike and then a blundered effort to spin off its DVD rental service to a different site also sent shares in the Nasdaq stock down 21%.
This is a tale of two editorials today: one in Utah, lambasting a lawmaker for trying to sneak a price hike into energy bills to pay for a proposed nuclear plant, and one in Florida, demanding the repeal of just such a price hike, which has collected hundreds of millions from ratepayers for nuclear plants that may never be built.
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Just 51 percent of boomers would agree to a 50 cents a gallon price hike.
Also, a menu price hike generally impacts same-store sales positively.
The analyst says his more bullish view on Siris reflects continued improvement in U.S. auto sales and evidence that a precent price hike is not affecting churn, retention and discounting as much as he had feared.
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It also means, however, that imported goods have seen a big price-hike.
In Connecticut regulators recently rejected a 20% price hike.
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The stock, of course, has been plagued by a combination of a poorly received price hike and an ill-conceived (and quickly canceled) plan to separate the company into two businesses, one to rent DVDs by mail and the other to stream video digitally.
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By snatching Cavill up now for Superman, Warner Bros. is securing the actor before he has a chance to hike his price if Immortals is a hit.
The government has refuted a China Business Times report on Monday of a 30% gas price hike that triggered nationwide panic buying and long queues for fuel, says Southern Metropolis Daily.
But it is certain, as opposed to merely likely, that the recent oil-price hike is a substantial negative supply shock.
Seafood restaurant Gamba Glasgow has removed lobster from its menu after facing a 72.4% price hike in the past three weeks.
In part, the MQM walked out in opposition to a planned hike in the oil price.
To what degree would the price hike lead to a decline in sales?
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On the Netflix company blog this weekend, Hastings apologized for his handling of the price hike and outlined a plan to split off the DVD-mailing business under a new brand, Qwikster.
In 2005 and 2006 MLB teams increased ticket prices an average of 5% each season, following up with a relatively modest 2.8% price hike for 2007.
Beijing and Guangzhou cities both posted a monthly gain of 3.1%, the highest price hike in China.
We discussed in a recent note that rising content costs and competition from a Dish-owned Blockbuster and others were prime drivers to this price hike, see Netflix Bets on Customer Loyalty as Higher Costs Force Price Hike.
"This is just a sort of ambit claim to get Foster's to hike the price, " said ABN Asset Management analyst Matthew Hoult.
Once one adds up inflation premiums and liquidity premiums and tax hike premiums, one finds that the price of safety is to invest at a loss.
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