It also means, however, that imported goods have seen a big price-hike.
An oil-price hike might quickly bring share prices back down to earth, with more severe consequences for growth.
But it is certain, as opposed to merely likely, that the recent oil-price hike is a substantial negative supply shock.
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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Other complaints he dismisses out of hand, especially anything to do with the price hike for 3-D tickets.
Round diamonds experienced the largest price hike, rising 40-percent since last year.
Also, a menu price hike generally impacts same-store sales positively.
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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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.
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.
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.
Twenty-five cities in November and 12 in October experienced a price hike on a yearly basis, indicating a rally in the housing market.
Khan tried to sell his stocks to the federal government to bypass the wholesalers and break the price hike, but he says officials refused, insisting that Khan--who does not own retail franchises--could sell to consumers directly.
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.
"It is chilling that companies such as SSE should announce these enormous half-year profits when families are being forced to take the hit for yet another massive price hike, " said Mike Jeram, head of business and environment at the Unison trade union.
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