One way to make sure those babies keep rising in price: Halperin allows Heritage employees--himself included--to bid on items it auctions off.
The thermal power stations require natural gas, oil and coal to operate, all of which have been rising in price in recent times.
No matter how much you love a stock (and write favorably about it in MarketWatch) it will not reward your loyalty by rising in price.
Meanwhile, the long bond keeps rising in price, defying debt-doomers.
Estate agents in the area said the recession had led to a dip in sales, but not of premium seafront homes which were still rising in price.
"Gold stocks, as represented by the AMEX Gold Bugs Index (HUI), an index of 15 large-cap, un-hedged, publicly held gold producers, have not kept up in percentage terms with the rise in the price of gold, and this is especially unusual because mining stocks are theoretically a leveraged play on the price of gold and should rise faster than gold in a rising price of gold environment, " says Nystrom.
Sony's head of investor relations, Morimoto Masayoshi, says his company is not all that interested in its share price per se, but it is interested in the kind of management that results in a rising price.
The improved performance was thanks in large part to sales rising 21% in full-price items and also an 18% reduction in inventories.
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Traders returned to panic mode on Tuesday in response to the rising price of oil and the growing uncertainty in what is now being referred to as MENA (Middle East, North Africa).
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As mentioned above, this rising price of food in the future has a knock-on effect on the real price of food now.
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Technological advances in drilling techniques in the United States, combined with the rising price of natural gas in the mid 2000s, made the adoption of fracing possible.
Higher costs related to materials, however, points to rising price pressure in manufacturing output.
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This growth, in turn, will be reflected in a rising share price.
In India, as in many countries, the government dares not allow the rising price of crude to be felt in the common man's pockets.
This ratio also ranks above 84% of all those taken in the prior 52 weeks, underscoring rising bullish expectations despite weak short-term price action in RIMM shares.
For a company that was spun out of Hoechst, a German chemicals giant, as a loss-maker in 1995, a rising share price has been a protection against takeovers.
Meantime, various emerging markets are boosting their pernicious food and energy subsidies to compensate for the rising price levels or, in some cases, to try to calm politically restive populations.
Some of this added burden has already come to light in the latest wholesale price index, which showed rising oil costs are driving an increase in manufacturing costs.
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And in the winter, the rising price of oil is also making it more expensive to heat your homes.
Investors new to bonds discovered it was not a safe haven to be receiving 4% annual interest on bonds if the bonds were dropping 10% in price annually due to rising interest rates.
The increase was mostly due to a 2.1% increase in energy costs, including a 4.7% increase in the cost of gasoline, and rising food prices, including a 13.6% increase in the price of fresh fruit and melons.
The oil price, which had been rising in anticipation of the move, remained relatively calm.
Rising energy prices pushed consumer-price inflation in the year to January up to 2.6%, its highest level since September 2001.
Then, as now, the Fed was given a pass, successfully blaming the inflation it had created on trouble in the Middle East and the rising price of oil.
While the owners upgraded the Milford rooms and common areas, the sharp jump in the hotel's price shows how demand for New York lodging in popular neighborhoods has been rising.
It also found the rising price of energy, fuel and food in October has driven up costs for businesses.
But the hard part is knowing how much an asset-price rally is rooted in genuinely rising prosperity and how much in government policies that can't last.
This combination of rising prices in the U.S. and slower price increases in strong currency countries over time offsets any short-term benefit that may be gained by devaluing the dollar.
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Also surprising this week was a higher reading for U.S. wholesale inflation, with the overall producer price index rising 0.8% in September, above the 0.4% expected and the flat reading in August.
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Problems in the global financial markets, the rising oil price and strong euro - which is negative for European exporters - have heaped worries on the prospects for the health of Europe's biggest economy.
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