Putinism has been propped up by high and rising prices for oil and gas, which have underpinned high economic growth and rising living standards.
That looks smart, as demand for the keeper product lines is high and prices are rising.
Consumers may well be feeling pinched from high gas prices, rising interest rates and a cooling housing market.
Thanks both to high mineral prices and rising output, mineral exports were up by almost half last year, and accounted for 55% of total exports.
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That, along with high energy prices, rising interest rates and less than stellar job growth, has created fears that the U.S. economy is heading toward a watered-down version of the stagflation of the 1970s.
India's auto market, which has attracted investment from global companies looking for growth in emerging markets, has lost some of its luster as high fuel prices and rising interest rates as well as fears of job losses in a slowing economy have kept customers away.
With conventional fuel prices high and rising, Pag couldn't have picked a better time to take on the challenge.
Consumer groups in Asia, which until recently were focused on issues such as high utility bills and rising food prices, are also becoming concerned about aggressive lending and debt collection.
Analysts worry that high product development costs and rising commodities prices could lower profit margins for the next few quarters.
In difficult economic times marked by high unemployment and rising food and gas prices, the retail landscape is comparable to the gladiator days of the Roman Empire.
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Small and medium-sized businesses face high raw-materials prices and rising labour costs, but miss out on the low electricity prices and tax advantages enjoyed by big firms.
Maruti, like other car makers in India, has been facing the effects of rising fuel prices and high loan rates which are preventing potential customers from buying new vehicles.
In fast-growing India, home to a rising middle class, high prices have slowed sales of gold recently, so a consumer base that likes to express itself with shiny accessories has turned to diamonds.
Another example: Dave Robertson, president of Koch Industries, sent a letter to 30, 000 employees at subsidiary George-Pacific, endorsing Mitt Romney and several other conservative candidates, and spelling out how employees might be hurt by rising gas prices and high inflation.
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While the oil market is currently in surplus, and is forecast to remain so through next year, gasoline prices are still rising domestically, with California seeing prices hit an all-time high over the last few days.
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With consumers stretched thin and interest rates rising, a prolonged period of high petrol prices might well force households to retrench, at least temporarily.
The efforts by the Chinese government to cool its rising real estate prices and control high inflation by maintaining high interest rates have caused this decline.
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Business leaders at the time called it a mere "business recession" to whittle down excess capacity and high inventories built up in response to rising commodity prices.
This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitative analyst at UBS bank.
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Some economists had been hoping for a rate cut after recent industrial and manufacturing data supplied further evidence that economic growth in Britain was slowing, but the central bank is more worried about high inflation brought on by rising oil and food prices.
"With mortgages rising and home prices at such a high level, people who might have considered purchasing a home a few years ago may now be turning to the rental market, particularly in big cities like New York, " says Richard Levy , a senior research analyst at the National Multi Housing Council , an industry association based in Washington, D.
All are suffering from a bout of inflation, due to stronger currencies, high domestic demand for real estate and services, and rising commodity prices.
While food businesses on the production end have benefited from the high prices, companies near the consumer end have suffered from rising raw material costs.
Now with rising prices and peak oil on the horizon, meaning high costs and eventual actual scarcities, exploration projects of this kind are now looking once again viable.
High fuel prices may fall as new sources of supply are exploited to fill rising demand from Asia.
Just as bulls welcome rising open interest with higher prices, a worrisome development would be high volume on any break lower in prices, Nedoss said.
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Rising living standards in developing economies like China will keep prices of natural resources high as demand outpaces supply.
In general, low inflation and rising GDP are good for stocks while high inflation and falling GDP can weigh on stock prices.
Higher energy demand and rising oil prices boosted oil-producing countries, while the continuing surge in high-tech demand benefited Asia and North America.
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