With unemployment still high and money wages till recently running behind prices, there seems little danger of prices spiralling.
As soon as that position was exploited, by running up prices, then how long do you think it would be before Facebook, or Google, or any number of start ups, would be offering e-books?
By contrast, the costliest city in which to shop for a used car is Jackson MS., where prices are running 9.0 percent above average.
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Some analysts attributed the decline to a pullback from the gains over mid-September lows and concerns that prices were running hotter than corporate earnings prospects.
Core inflation in the euro area (that is, excluding volatile energy and food prices) is running at just 1.4%, up from 1.3% in August.
Analysts were expecting the headline number to increase by a slower 0.1%, according to Bloomberg, showing that prices are indeed running up higher than expected.
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Inflation is running above 15% and food prices are rising even faster.
Industry insiders report that prudent institutions were running internal valuation models even when market prices were clearly observable: those that were not had to scramble to develop such models when markets seized up, causing delays in proper disclosure.
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Others have cut prices as an opportunity for running promotions or special sales, recognizing that with their customers facing an inflationary crunch, "it might be an opportune time to run some deep discounts as a way to try to capture some volume, " says Reibstein.
Consumer prices inflation in Hungary is currently running at 4.25%, well above the official 3% target.
Amid surging oil prices and talk of fossil fuels running out, nukes have lost a lot of their taint.
But it also put renewed pressure on prices in a country where inflation is running at about 20%.
After a decade of rising oil prices and budget surpluses, Russia is running a deficit and looking to borrow money.
Inflation is running in double digits, domestic gas and electricity prices need to be raised and the outlook for the world economy is suddenly gloomier.
But despite the overall lag, booking volume since January for the rest of the year has been "running significantly higher than last year at slightly higher prices, " the company said.
Hybrid vehicles cost more than traditional cars but their running cost is much lower and with the gas prices continuing to remain persistently high, alternative fuel vehicles are gaining popularity both domestically and internationally.
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Residential prices have dropped double digits for three years running with no abatement in sight.
Customers who don't want their thermostat on autopilot could change their habits, by keeping the thermostat higher some days and running the electricity-hogging clothes dryer when off-peak prices are in effect.
When that gets up and running, as early as later this year, Navistar expects battery prices to fall and, with it, the cost of the truck.
One is how to improve margins sufficiently to make a healthy real return in a world where over-capacity is running at 25-30%, and car makers are cutting prices either overtly or by offering extra features.
Since the recent fall in headline inflation is largely due to lower prices of tradables, including commodities, with service inflation still running around 8.2 percent year over year in July.
This year's prices have also fueled concern that the world may be close to running out of oil.
Private business in his Venezuela has profited from economic growth, which is running at 10% a year because of a huge windfall from high oil prices.
It took a quarter of the potential liquidity in the markets out of the running as potential buyers and that lack of buyers put extra downward pressure on prices.
They started out in the 1970s doing claims adjudication for pharmacies and insurers, but moved into negotiating drug prices with manufacturers, designing health plans for employers and insurers and running mail-order shops.
Helped by a worldwide slump in oil prices, he has managed to bring inflation down for four months running (see chart), even if the government's year-end target of 50% looks too optimistic by 15 percentage points.
Russia is currently running a fiscal surplus of slightly under 1% of GDP thanks to high oil prices.
The high capital depreciation of this equipment must be offset by running it at full capacity, so rather than cut production the market participants lower prices to entice customers away from their competition, creating a downward price spiral.
Prior to his running for president in 2008, McCain had argued correctly that ethanol subsidies actually raise gasoline prices, fail to make the U.S. more energy independent, and damage the environment.
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In economies such as these, which compare themselves to Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the US, when it comes to development targets and real estate prices, similar comparisons should be made in terms of costs of establishing and running businesses.
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