When Libya's teetering dictator Muammar Ghaddafi decided to shut down Libya's oil exports last month, the oil markets reacted with a sharp increase in prices.

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The company blamed a sharp increase in raw material prices and the UK's continuing economic difficulties.

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The company blamed its administration on a sharp increase in raw material prices and the UK's economic difficulties.

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When the Fed begins to unwind the huge portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage backed securities, there will likely be a sharp discontinuous increase in interest rates resulting in a sharp fall in bond prices especially high yield bonds.

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Moreover, the issues that led to the BJP's humiliating performance have a national appeal: The party was punished for misgovernance in economic and social policies, particularly its failure to control the sharp increase in the prices of onions, a staple vegetable in India that affected the cost of many other goods.

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All told, food and beverage prices in Brazil rose 1.08 percent month over month, pushing the increase in tradable goods prices to 0.64 pecent monthly in September, a sharp jump from 0.22 percent in August.

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However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.

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The sharp increase in neutral sentiment follows modest decline in stock prices and a continued climb in gasoline prices.

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