Controls and prohibitions help to keep prices higher, and higher prices help keep use rates relatively low.
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He has been very clear about his concern about higher gas prices and higher oil prices, and what that means for American families.
The top 10 items the U.S. trades with China are all seeing higher volumes and higher prices paid for those goods over the last three years.
This confusion spills over into the rest of the economy, especially smaller businesses that can least afford to pay higher taxes, higher wages and higher gas prices or for pricey dinners with lobbyists, and so forth.
While the works of masters such as Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Picasso have fetched hundreds of millions of dollars at both auction and private sales in recent years, living artists are increasingly commanding higher and higher prices too.
The thought at that time was that customers were feeling the pinch of higher taxes and higher gasoline prices.
That policy may bring even higher inflation and higher oil prices in the short-run, and force the Fed to abandon it in the future, postponing a mild recession now to a deeper recession tomorrow.
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Some market experts think today's negative sentiment goes beyond the Fed statement--that the combination of higher interest rates, weaker housing prices and higher oil prices may have already baked the cake.
The higher index, in theory, indicates higher demand for commodities and therefore higher prices for those raw materials being shipped, mostly, to emerging markets.
The hitch is that higher inflation means higher interest rates, and higher rates mean falling prices on the Fannie Maes and Treasury bonds.
Because ads become more relevant on mobile devices when the advertiser knows what the person is interested in based on the desktop profile, ads can have higher click-through rates and higher prices.
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Further decreases in homebuilding and related activities, consumers spending less due to rising unemployment, declining home values and higher energy prices, and maybe higher inflation due to increased food and energy costs.
The weak dollar leads to higher commodities and that inevitably means higher crude prices and that has some investors bullish on Russia.
Higher bond and note prices suggest higher trader anxiety in the daily market place.
OPEC's high reserves, low production-to-reserves ratios and a propensity not to adhere to volume quotas, make a drive for higher market share through higher output and lower prices a logical outcome to their current dilemma.
It takes about six months for higher grain prices to translate to higher cattle and hog prices.
Operating profit benefited from higher rough diamond prices and higher high-end jewelry and timepiece sales, the company said.
Companies compensate for higher taxes and lower rates of return partly with lower wages and higher prices, which disproportionately impact the poor.
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All else equal, that would mean lower gas prices and higher electricity prices.
For another, it would be difficult to decide which films should command higher prices and when prices should drop.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Labor Department said U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in June as lower energy prices and higher food prices cancelled out each other.
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According to media reports, around 30 real estate projects in Beijing have failed to get sales licenses as planned because their project pricing was deemed much higher than previous projects, and higher than average home prices of similar size in the city.
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' They've got higher fuel prices and higher food bills to deal with now.
It is a tax our citizens pay every day in higher gasoline prices and higher costs to heat and cool their homes.
Mass-marketing channels and poor customer segmentation also result in higher costs and marketing expenses which translate to higher prices.
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Walk into a market in a depressed neighborhood, where the average income is low, most dwellings are rented, and the demographics feature higher numbers of minorities, and prices for basic items are often higher than they are at a massive supermarket in a thriving, mostly-white suburban neighborhood.
Buying by investors has more than made up for a slump in gold-jewellery purchases in key markets, such as India and Turkey, where higher prices and wilting exchange rates have crushed demand.
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"We concluded that the monetary forces that were arising in the world globally had become so overwhelming, relative to the resources of central banks, that we had effectively lost control of long-term interest rates and the forces directing higher prices and homes, " he said.
As the platform becomes more popular, eventually, developers may be able to get higher sales by cutting app prices and getting higher sales volumes.
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Higher stock prices and the higher bond yield shifted valuations significantly.
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