Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy Web site says that rising oil and gasoline prices have not necessarily pulled up the price of other goods.
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.
How can prices be rising nationally while the number of metros with price increases falls?
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The "zigzag" movement of prices rising and falling in short order was normal, she said, and a sign of the intense price competition on the market.
And the falling price of an iPod naturally presumes rising prices for other goods once out of reach.
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"Rising crude oil prices may continue to push up the price of gasoline, offsetting any reduction in the fuel taxes, " says a May Congressional Research Service research report.
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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Because fish stocks throughout the world are falling, driving up the prices of fish meal, and cotton production is rising, driving down the price of cottonseed, feeding cottonseed to catfish works for farmers of both cotton and catfish.
Despite the rapidly rising prices, there was no shortage of crude oil to justify the run up of price in the commodities pits.
Economists are interested in studying the borrowing response of households to rising house prices and increasing home equity during the recent house price boom for two main reasons.
Negative effects from endogenous price rises are self-limiting: if rising gas prices hurt expectations of economic growth, then lower expected economic growth should cause gas prices to fall.
It is not just the price of gold that has been rising: so, too, have the prices of precious and base metals.
The price of goods leaving factories barely rose in November from October, as rising fuel prices were offset by a drop in car prices.
Manufacturing growth rates are starting to taper off and the Chinese powerhouse suffering from rising house prices and other sources of inflation problems looks altogether more likely to raise interest rates on account of price pressures even if the economic growth burst is fading.
That coincided with a sharp fall in the price of carbon allowances under the EU's flagship emissions trading system and rising European prices for natural gas.
If I believed commodity prices are rising because of robust economic growth and strong global aggregate demand, I might conclude that the commodity price increases were a net positive.
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Ira Epstein, director of the Ira Epstein division of The Linn Group, who said he sees prices for gold rising, said the rising tensions can be price-supportive.
Supervalu exited some markets in the U.S. in the last fiscal year including Connecticut and Ohio, and it sold its higher priced health foods chain Bristol Farms, as part of a plan to create savings that it can put into price competition for groceries, which may seem especially prudent now as shoppers are aware of rising prices as a result of higher commodity costs.
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