Prices will continue to rise.

The increase in gasoline prices is a tactical increase.

Ultimately, higher oil prices compete with national development priorities.

Four years of deflation and a drawn out banking crisis offer little prospect of economic stimulus. Higher oil prices and lower trade turnover aggravate the problem.

Higher oil prices and lower trade turnover aggravate the problem.

Indeed, many countries are already experiencing an increase in import prices for biological resources.

Soaring oil prices boost wood energy

This is boosting the prices of other risky assets such as equities and credit.

In general, the higher demand for roundwood resulted in higher prices, which were not always equally compensated for by higher product prices after processing.

Ordinarily, a sharp rise in oil prices quickly translates into higher inflation expectations, followed by rising interest rates at all maturities.

A weak dollar also affects demand by increasing consumption. The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

Certainly, the increase in the prices of certain primary commodities in 1994 was an encouraging sign.

This means more treatment on greeting cards and higher buy in prices for gift products.

The city government of Moscow complained to the antimonopoly agency of a simultaneous increase in the price of cement by four leading producers.

Despite recent improvements, long term projections of the prices of commodities from the developing countries were unfavourable.

However, the gains in African prices were not solely the result of currency movements shortages in supply of certain species also drove up prices.

In North America, housing construction demand drove prices up and production responded.

Prices for fibre inputs have also shown signs of recovery and increase in North America over the past few years.

The increase in the exchange value of the euro from 2003 to 2004 eroded production cost advantages and the benefits of dollar denominated price increases.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization argues that rising food prices could lead to increasing global conflicts. The Davos World Economic Forum ranks food insecurity as a major risk to humanity.

People seemed to think that rapid appreciation in these markets had become a universal constant, like the speed of light.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization argues that rising food prices could lead to increasing global conflicts.

During Napoleonic Wars it became impossible to import cheap grain into Britain which resulted in the price of bread increasing.

(a) Sudden increases in the cost of services and supplies promulgated by the host authorities that result in unplanned unforeseen expenditure

The limited availability of coastal mining resources and the growing demand for these resources implies that their prices are rising.

The sharp rise in oil prices had only a relatively moderate negative impact on global economic activity in 2004 (graph 3.1.1).

If there is a perception that prices will be higher in the future, then prices will tend to be higher today.

The parties were able to justify the increases to the agency, however, by showing increases in their costs.

Add to this a 30 increase in prices for prescription drugs, and it is easy to see why Greek society is unraveling.

As one of the most energy intensive forest products manufacturing sectors, the industry's profitability was constrained by higher energy costs.

The North American particle board market continued to stagnate throughout 2004 despite rising prices in the first half of the year. While prices moderated during the second half of the year and into the first quarter of 2005, they still remained relatively strong (graph 7.3.2).

As the escalation of dollar commodity prices continues, so will European interest in a stronger currency.

However, the rise in oil prices could jeopardize the progress made if the increase is maintained in 2005.

This increase in price has had little to do with changes in demand, but rather more to do with tight log supply and higher transport costs.

The stronger euro and weaker dollar in 2004 limited price appreciation in Europe for pulp and paper commodities.

This pattern reflects the Fed s own obsession with price stability, which encourages preemptive interest rate increases to head off inflation, but restrains equivalent preemptive reductions to head off unemployment.

Strong global demand, owing to emerging economies like China, has undoubtedly fueled some of the price increase.

The recent turn around in that trend seemed due to speculation because, according to long term forecasts, prices would remain weak.

New Caledonia has benefited from higher global nickel prices in 2004, partly as a result of strong demand from China.

Computerised traffic management systems can likewise help to improve traffic flow and to ease congestion.

This selling pressure on the dollar, which started in early 2002, has been mainly due to the increasingly perceived need for a fundamental realignment of the exchange rate patterns among major currencies in order to correct the large US current account deficit and the associated rise in external financial liabilities (graph 3.1.2).

Just as pressures on oil and gas supplies have driven up energy prices, environmental stresses may now push up food and water prices in many parts of the world. Given the heat waves, droughts, and other climate stresses across the US, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere this year, wheat prices are now shooting up to their highest levels in decades.

Just as pressures on oil and gas supplies have driven up energy prices, environmental stresses may now push up food and water prices in many parts of the world.

There are concerns that in some countries strong increases in housing prices reflect a bubble, which, in the event it should burst and lead to a sudden sharp fall in real estate prices, would significantly dampen economic activity.