U.S. equity prices continue to rise as a benign short-term interest-rate policy holds sway.
Will Food Prices Continue to Rise in 2011? by Addison Wiggin originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
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Central banks have flooded the markets with cash, oil prices continue to rise, and emerging market economies are growing rapidly.
But if prices continue to rise at their current rate, that peak will be passed within a year in America.
Food companies are the latest target: Pedro Malan, the finance minister, has threatened to cut import barriers if food prices continue to rise.
Consumer spending also remains under pressure, due in part to the fall in real-term earnings over the last year as wage increases stagnate and prices continue to rise.
Real estate prices continue to rise in Beijing and Shanghai.
If oil prices continue to rise, analysts worry it will hurt developing economies whose growth has helped buoy Western economies struggling with tepid growth and the threat of recession.
Competition there between home brewers and waste collectors for grease is fierce, and some fear as gas prices continue to rise, the scramble for the nation's kitchen waste will only intensify.
But if prices continue to rise the government may come under pressure to do more, such as to reduce the subsidy for renewable energy schemes that are being paid for by higher electricity bills.
Fleischer found himself explaining that thinking Wednesday, saying that although the government was unlikely to do anything as gas prices continue to rise into the summer, consumers would be able to dull the ache if they start to see more money in their paychecks.
Now we get to a new hurdle, I call it the 'added digit theory', and here we are, we have just passed ten thousand, prices continue to rise for a couple more months and nobody knows what is going to happen in the future and it is a worrying concept.
Unfortunately, I expect fuel prices to continue to rise (and become much more volatile), but WM is taking steps to address this, by making their fleet more efficient and by using some of their own biogas as fuel.
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The Hang Seng Index was down 0.2% at 20694.70, but reversing earlier losses due to the strong performances of local developers, which continued to outperform on expectations that housing prices could continue to rise due to quantitative easing increasing liquidity.
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At this point, FAST investors have had a nice ride and may want to look to strategically reduce their exposure in this stock, especially if you believe fuel prices will continue to rise.
Observers predict food prices should continue to rise in coming months, driven higher by a damaging drought in the Midwest.
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Afshin Nabavi, head of trading at trading house MKS Finance, said gold prices should continue to rise, although stay in a range.
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However, the company said prices would continue to rise faster than wages, meaning "real wages will continue to fall, albeit at a slower rate than last year".
Prices could pull back briefly, as demand is at a seasonal low, but many analysts say the broader trend is that prices will continue to rise because of risks to oil supplies.
" Speaking via satellite from Washington to the International Monetary Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Bernanke also noted that even though the foreign exchange value of the dollar has been relatively stable in recent months, "the possibility that commodity prices will continue to rise is an important risk to the inflation forecast.
In Scotland, 27% percent more surveyors expect prices to continue to fall rather than rise.
Gold miners have largely abandoned hedging, choosing instead to gamble that prices of the precious metal will continue to rise.
Boone Pickens says he expects oil prices to continue their meteoric rise.
The increase in consumption could be tenuous as unemployment continues to rise and home prices continue to fall.
Last year, housing prices fell most in Europe, but continue to rise in other parts of the world, including in the United States.
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If energy prices, already on the rise, continue to trend upward, it could put further pressure on producers and on consumers, who are stuck in a cycle of deleveraging.
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We expect the prices of crude oil and NGLs to continue to rise driven by the growth in economic activity in emerging countries and the corresponding increase in demand for oil and NGLs.
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Same store sales are expected to rise 0-2% as hardware manufacturers continue to slash prices.
Meanwhile production costs continue to rise, meaning future prices must be still higher for sales to be profitable.
At the same time, reported inflation is going to continue to rise, as will asset prices.
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