Consumer prices

Consumer prices (percentage)

Chinese consumer prices rose about 6.5 over the past year, while US consumer prices rose only about 3.5 .

18. Consumer prices everywhere rose much more rapidly than wholesale prices.

Consumer demand has been the main factor responsible for lower prices in retailing.

The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.

And, due to rising consumer prices, the nominal interest rate will continue to rise.

Lower share prices will now have negative effects on consumer spending and business investment.

The resulting rise in equity prices would increase household wealth, providing a boost to consumer spending.

An aging but increasingly middle class Asia will be at the core of this new consumer landscape.

Combine this with the continued fall in housing prices, and it is understandable that consumer spending remains depressed.

Because consumer prices fell faster than wages, the welfare of those who remained employed rose in the Great Depression.

For security and environmental reasons, their energy efficiency increased via a combination of taxes, higher consumer prices, and public education.

But open ended incentives have their own costs they can raise consumer prices and bottle up resources in unproductive activities.

Inflation has declined to its lowest level in 20 years, with consumer prices rising by 9.7 per cent in 1993.

Rising consumer prices and declining employment and income have often been the most immediately visible effect of adjustment and transformation.

This approach allows higher consumer electricity prices to be phased in gradually, yet establishes strong, immediate incentives for adopting solar power.

But the behavior of consumer prices in the post 1980 crises is fundamentally different from that seen in the 1930 s.

In addition to tighter credit, falling home prices and high unemployment will continue to put a crimp on US consumer spending.

There, capital inflows create asset bubbles that tend to overheat the domestic economy and drive up wages and consumer prices inordinately.

Today, the debate is over core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices because they are too volatile.

a Figures for gross domestic product and consumer prices refer to the group of countries included in tables 2 and 5, respectively.

With housing being such a critical driver of consumer behavior, any further substantial fall in home prices will sap confidence and lower spending.

Since September, this new market has traded the Eurozone s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices, or HICP a contract that traders call the hiccup.

For example, in the US, the Engineering News Record Building Cost Index (which is based on prices of labor, concrete, steel, and lumber) has actually fallen relative to consumer prices over the past 30 years.

Even when gold jumped to 800 an ounce in 2008, it had failed to keep up with the rise in consumer prices since 1980.

Indeed, the expectation that tax included prices will rise in the future can stimulate households to buy cars, appliances, and other consumer goods today.

So it takes into account everything from the pitcher match ups, to the weather, to the team records, in setting prices for the consumer.

At the same time, there has been a notable deterioration in underlying core inflation, which strips out food and energy prices.

But the macroeconomic weakness in the US now goes beyond the decreased supply of credit. Falling house prices reduce household wealth and therefore consumer spending.

Inflation is another concern. With official figures widely discredited, private analysts estimate that consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 25 or more.

Until 2007, many people financed consumer purchases, whose prices were more or less stable, by borrowing against their houses, which were rapidly rising in value.

Low long term interest rates have kept the region s debts manageable, while high consumer demand has helped bid up prices for the region s commodity exports.

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Consumer fraud

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The sharp fall in house prices that followed caused a dramatic downturn in household wealth, leading to lower consumer spending and an overall fall in GDP.

Rural Alaska suffers from extremely high prices for food and consumer goods compared to the rest of the country, due to the relatively limited transportation infrastructure.

Although high oil prices and a relatively cheap ruble initially drove this growth, since 2003 consumer demand and, more recently, investment have played a significant role.

First, after the merger, the combined company might abuse its strengthened market dominance to raise prices of its beer and soju products, directly reducing consumer benefits.

Promoting improved understanding of the structural conditions in international markets, including long term trends in consumption and production, factors affecting market access, consumer preferences and prices, and conditions leading to prices which reflect the costs of sustainable forest management

It's a process of the production and reproduction of novelty, continually chasing expanding consumer markets, consumer goods, new consumer goods.

One approach centers on prices, with the consumer price index appearing to be the most obvious indicator. The problem is that the relationship between the money supply (which ultimately determines the value of money) and prices is an unstable one.

(e) Promoting improved understanding of the structural conditions in international markets, including long term trends in consumption and production, factors affecting market access, consumer preferences and prices, and conditions leading to prices which reflect the costs of sustainable forest management

Moreover, surveys of consumer expectations show that US households expect prices to rise at more than 2 in both the coming year and the more distant future.