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Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.
William Joyce
The two concerns that people have about a la carte is that we believe it will lead to higher prices for less choice, and that it will very much undercut the ability of many niche channels or special-interest channels to exist at all.
Mark Harrad
We've had a lot of people come in and compare prices and most of them come back because a $50 credit is better than $25 cash, and we will give you cash after 30 days.
Matt Woodford
[Rita] could have a significant impact on supply and prices -- this really is a national disaster.
Bill Greehey
Gas prices will definitely hit $3 a gallon. I'd say in the next couple of weeks.
Roy Turner
It is a calibrated and preemptive response to rising inflation. They are more concerned with containing inflation pressures arising from higher value-added tax and crude oil prices.
Jonathan Ravelas
High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.
Anthony Andrews
If the Bank of Japan can confirm one more month of CPI gains, its policy conditions on prices will be satisfied, and the only remaining issue will be its overall judgment of the economy's strength.
Ryutaro Kono
Some of the amphitheaters have big ticket fees and high services fees and big parking prices and high food and beverage prices, ... You can go to a minor-league ballpark where a beer is $3 or $4, or you can go to an amphitheater where a beer is $8 or $9.
Jerry Mickelson
They told me, 'Don't bargain with the prices,' ... They wanted the best of everything. I was surprised. I didn't know they'd have a budget like Guangzhou or Beijing.
David Lang
Continued strong economic growth and falling gas prices in the fourth quarter leaves me hopeful that delinquencies will continue to fall.
James Chessen
It's not right for the oil companies to artificially bring prices up for gasoline already in the ground because of market predictions - especially when the price is not attributed to additional expenses by the vendor.
Bill Mitchell
It's no good if we go ahead and switch off safe nuclear plants...and increase our energy prices that way.
Michael Glos
The prices of tickets on offer are just ridiculous.
Mark Graham
Normally the prices should come down, but I don't see that because I think the cost of exploration is much higher than we expected.
Roger Tamraz
It hasn't been necessary to raise my prices. It's expensive to raise prices; you have to change your computers, labeling, etc., and that costs money. Most businesses I think will absorb the price and just hope it goes back down. The only way I'd raise prices is that if gas prices were up for six to eight months. Then I'd probably raise them because of the deliveries we make.
Robin Myers
[For now, delivery prices are staying put.] Normally we only charge $6 and $8 for Louisville, ... but that's not covering it lately.
Ann Murphy
Drug prices are much more than a casual concern for New Yorkers. As prices continue to increase, they've become an obstacle to being able to live a healthy life. This survey shows not only that high drug costs are a problem, but that people expect their legislators to do something about it.
Lois Aronstein
There is potential for squeezes and prices to go up. But people won't be left freezing and unable to heat their homes.
Mark Mathias
Crude oil is staying near $70 a barrel right now. With all of the unrest in the Middle East and the new threats with Iran, all these things just keep gas prices high.
Rolayne Fairclough
We don't expect to see land prices ever come down, but it's a lot harder to say whether building materials will.
Dave Loveland
The copper market is very tight. All you need is a strike or an accident at a mine for the prices of the metal to shoot up.
Tiberio Dall'olio
Historically, capacity utilization over the 81 (percent) level could bring some production bottlenecks into play throughout the economy which could put upward pressure on prices.
Ronald Simpson
The people who built this course for us were shocked by the prices we are going to charge. They said on the East Coast a course like this would cost between $10 and $15 per round.
Mike Parks
We have fear of higher oil prices and the lower dollar against the yen.
Charles Reinhard
Clearly, high gasoline prices took quite a toll on the typical consumer.
David Huether
Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most direct impact of higher oil prices is on the Japanese yen.
Ashraf Laidi
Recent oil and fuel inventory trends are clearly demonstrating that the oil industry is no longer in crisis mode and that energy prices are likely to continue to soften.
Bart Melek
A lot of our grapes go to the Central Valley. These producers can?t justify higher wine grape prices.
Dennis Collins
In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wall Street prices in a premium for these stocks because it's human nature to be conservative.
Brian Alger
I've got to pay bills and stuff. I can't do it with gas prices going up so much.
Justin Watson
That just gives you the average, the high and the low for that market - not individual stations. Again, I advise caution, because the average may be built on prices that are two or three days old.
Don Lindsey
We know people are affected by the prices they are paying at the pump, and they are concerned about our dependence on foreign oil. We thought this was a good opportunity to make sure people know about the choices they already have.
Sue Cischke
The strength in platinum prices reflects two key factors: the broad enthusiasm for commodities by investors and speculators, and the continued tight industry fundamentals.
Alan Williamson
The high oil prices are surely not wholesome for the economy.
Axel Weber
[The rise in oil prices] wouldn't be quite as calamitous in Japan as it would in the U.S., where the people are more energy-dependent, ... Even though Japan may be efficient in its use of oil, like everyone else it still crimps your monthly budget. They're paying more for gasoline, so they're not immune to that.
David Cohen
Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.
Ross Gittell
Much of the commodities rally in some shape or form is linked to the rise in energy prices and global inflation.
John Licata
The growth was 5.5%. With the increase in oil prices, the Arab countries have accumulated foreign funds and have been able to invest more money in imports. The countries have grown due to oil.
Michel Alaby
What irritates me about it is I know they haven't gotten gas in days. Their gas came in four or five days ago. The previous owner wouldn't change his prices, either up or down, until he got another load of gas. It's just a matter of profiteering, pure and simple.
Bill Burke
Those negative factors such as the yen and oil prices came up all together.
Teruhisa Ishikawa
We expect more suppliers to tag more items as tag prices fall.
Linda Dillman
A lot of people who over-improved did a cash-out refinancing when rates were at a low, expecting housing prices to continue going up and up. But in some places, like the Midwest, prices have already stopped climbing.
Sal Alfano
A stabilization in prices has occurred. That doesn't mean that appreciation has stopped in all areas. It hasn't. You're just going to see more modest increases, at best.
David Dabby
If damage to the infrastructure is found to be reasonably severe, prices will increase over the coming weeks.
Dominic Bryant
You can't have this kind of slowing in job growth coupled with rising energy prices and not see some adverse impact on consumer spending.
Alan Gayle
With stocks at 47.9 pct above the five-year average, any upward momentum on futures prices is expected to be modest.
Ben Weagraff
The overall reading is obviously very strong, but I think the market might be hampered a bit by the prices paid index being a bit lower here. That might be keeping a lid on the dollar.
John Beerling
Oil prices are still high and hurting smaller manufacturers.
Steve Sharratt
President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.
Toby Chaudhuri
Predicting what is going to happen in the next month is difficult. Prices probably will go up just because troubles in the Gulf (of Mexico) have driven up prices worldwide.
Rob Schlichting
Every so often, some event occurs... And then the event goes away, but the prices don't go down as far as before.
John Vautrain
Everyone is facing the same issue. Those prices are just going through the roof.
Roman Czuchta
They missed an opportunity, ... There needs to be more attention to hard realities, like higher gas prices. What can we do to enable a better transportation system? That's where the debate should be, and you hear very little discussion about that. All of us need to get more serious on transportation.
Kevin Mccarty
I think two factors to look at in considering the rise are crude oil prices and gas demand.
Trilby Lundberg
There is no evidence in the record that if they had the best management, it would have made any difference (in the prices they paid for wholesale power).
Nancy Becker
I think prices reached the point where it would drop demand sometime back, in July or so.
James Hamilton
As housing prices and apartment rents rise, we see many families squeezed to find adequate homes.
Carroll Klein
We haven't added a new customer in two years, but we were able to buy natural gas futures at a good price, so we can offer Columbia and Dominion Peoples customers these prices. Existing Peoples Plus customers already have a better deal.
Dan Donovan
Commodity producers were particularly hard hit after falls in base metal prices over recent days.
Robert Wallis
Over the past six months, the core PPI is up at about a 0.5 per cent annual rate. There is no indication that higher energy prices have led to broad inflationary pressures.
Dick Green
Prices aren't going to halve. But they started at $50,000, so it's come down some already.
Tom Wagner
As sales and profits continue to expand despite surging basic material prices, Japanese firms are willing to boost investment to deal with growing demand.
Taro Saito
Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, because we're locked into a number, is we may have to make cuts. If we start bumping up against the educational specifications, that's going to be tough.
Irene Allan
Over the last few days, we've seen oil prices come back, and the market was looking for that to happen, especially since that has been a tax on the consumer and on business.
Sarat Sethi
When the international prices rise, we expect the government to cut its share of profit and its revenue earnings and share the burden of the increase with the common man.
Arun Jaitley
People have got to cool it. People have to not think it's the last gallon of gas they are going to get, ... Get gas normally. Let us get it straightened out. If people start easing off a little bit, prices will come down.
Don Bowers
With oil prices this high I can't see OPEC cutting production. It's clear they won't change the quotas. Prices aren't going to fall a lot anytime soon.
Sarah Emerson
We are asking the prices and if we get what we are asking I will be donating one million dollars for the community.
Lazar Makyadeth
Hurricane Katrina affected all prices. They ( pass this price increase along to universities and homes, the consumer. In just electricity cost alone, we are paying $3,120,000.
Pat Teeters
We're going to see it in our prices. Most of the products we buy are delivered by truck and somewhere, those increases in gas prices have to be absorbed.
Dotty Harpool
All members look to see what stocks we could be interested in adding. The financial partner contacts our broker prior to the meeting and checks on the prices of stock and how we're doing.
Betty Nostdahl
We believe the best value now occurs at prices below $4/share, and any semblance of value disintegrates much above $6/share.
Viktor Shvets
This is a time of year when historically you see gas prices increase.
Jeannie Chavez
The industry wasn't 100 percent convinced that prices would stay high. We're just now at the point where they're starting to spend more.
Amy Myers Jaffe
The impact of $60 oil prices in 2006 is very different indeed from the impact of high oil prices in the 1970s or 1980s. Energy is becoming a less important part of the global economy. Oil expenditure is currently about two percent of US gross domestic product, one quarter of what it was in 1980.
Richard Batty
High oil prices may raise inflation but longer-term it's negative for growth and that's how the Fed sees it.
David Mann
I think this is just a token gesture, ... Gas prices are going to keep going up in the future.
Michael Carter
I'll put it this way, we find it curious that gasoline prices (were) among the highest, then dropped to what now amounts to the second lowest in the country.
Dave Carlson
For our New York city market, we have increased ticket prices by only 2.5 percent, ... This is our first ticket price increase in two and a half years, during which time the costs associated with other forms of entertainment have increased dramatically, and inflation has grown by approximately 4 percent.
John Mccauley
This is because the negative contribution from (weak) rice prices is likely to dissipate and the effects of a reduction in electricity and telephone charges are also expected to ease.
Toshihiko Fukui
The first thing we need to do in response to these climbing prices is get our house in order. The U.S. needs legislation that addresses our energy problems, provides incentives for alternative energy, improves energy infrastructure, maximizes domestic resources and addresses the fact that the energy crisis we face now isn't going away.
John Felmy
The geopolitical risk that exists in the market is going to provide more upside...think you're going to see a lot of concentration on commodity prices.
Cheryl Brandon
2005 was a relatively good price year for a number of commodities, both in California and nationwide, and so some small farms moved from one sales category to the next with $1,000 or $2,000 in sales, and that may go back next year just as prices move around.
Dan Sumner
We have seen a massive increase in fuel prices.
Martin George
Oil prices and continued inflammatory comments from Iran are driving gold.
Daniel Vaught
It's not an avalanche of lower prices, but it's better than it has been.
Hal Gershman
The costs we incur for paying for natural gas we have to pass on to the customer. We do everything we can to keep prices down because of our customers. One of the things we suggest to our customers is average billing. This is where your bill can be averaged out over 12 months. It is a big help and a good thing to do for our customers.
Mike Richard
We're predicting that if fuel prices remain around these sorts of levels, then it could have an impact of around 40 percent on our after-tax profit.
Ralph Norris
Some of the capacity will go away if fuel prices stay this high. It (oil prices near $50 a barrel) could hasten US Airways' demise.
Betsy Snyder
The equity analysts that follow these companies are assuming that the commodity prices we're seeing are attributable to strength in the global economy. What we don't know is how much.
Rich Bernstein
Forty-seven percent of the refinery activity in the U.S. is in the Gulf. That was bolstering the price of unleaded gasoline and home-heating oil, and pulling up crude prices with it.
Mike Rothman
I think what is a valid concern is an overburdened FDA, and whether the FDA becomes more of a bottleneck to getting new generic drugs approved and getting the prices of drugs down.
Richard Watson
There has been anger at times over high gas prices in Europe, I don't see any growing anger right now.
Ben Lieberman
Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.
Linda Wallace
More money exchanges hands with the resale of a domain name, versus the sale of a new name, ... You can buy new names for as low as $15. Resale prices are much higher than that, although they are coming down.
James Grady
There's a good opportunity for this company to sell surplus power into the wholesale market. Wholesale prices look attractive.
Paul Fremont
The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.
Af Alhajji
Given current crude prices and generally consistent participation among legacy names, we see no reason for last night's (fare hike) initiative to fail.
Jamie Baker
Now our prices are tied back with the U.S..
Anne Dunford
With what's going on with the aftermath of the hurricane, I would expect prices to go up rather than down in September.
Sean Comey
This is a prints-driven business, so we bring them in with aggressive print prices, then market the other products to them. But now, a lot of people are coming to us initially for cards and books.
Tom Kelley
Rising commodities prices definitely contributed to the fortune of the Canadian dollar today. Commodities have been a positive factor for the Canadian dollar in 2005 and the market expects good news to continue this year.
Steve Butler
The sustained high level of oil and sharply increased gas prices have driven up energy and raw material costs and manufacturers are continuing to respond by cutting employment to curb the wage bill and boosting investment in efficiency-improving measures.
Ian Mccafferty
Wal-Mart deserves their high admiration level because they do what they say. They give America a place to buy at low prices in stores where employees seem happy to be there and willing to assist customers when questions are asked.
Britt Beemer
Hurricane Katrina, coupled with soaring gasoline prices and a less optimistic job outlook, has ... created a degree of uncertainty and concern about the short-term future.
Lynn Franco
Sentiment for gold is improving but the outlook largely depends on the fate of crude oil prices.
Tatsuo Kageyama
Our business is more impacted by consumer confidence than even a little spike in the interest rates or even a little spike in the energy prices. As long as the consumer confidence remains positive, which it is, you are going to see continued consumer spending.
Farooq Kathwari
European ministers again agree that it's not a question of lowering prices by adjusting excise duties but probably of helping poorer families with compensation measures.
Domenico Siniscalco
The specific prices [on Premium Pages] are the ones that your company has negotiated.
Richard Owen
There is no incentive for the other members to [agree to] raise oil production. They won't see any benefits because oil prices will fall.
Peter Hitchens
Now that the weather forecast has changed to predict warmer weather, the prices have come down quite significantly.
Dariusz Kowalczyk
Some people are looking at breakevens that are lower than feeder contract prices. The summer contracts are beginning to soften, but there have been opportunities to hedge them for a reasonable margin.
Jason Sawyer
Once an economy starts to bottom out and grow slowly, it starts to suck into the real economy all of the capital which was driving up asset prices before.
David Roche
The trend is for higher yields given the outlook for economic growth. Consumer prices will probably turn positive after October.
Hidenori Suezawa
Judging from fundamentals for the yen, including strong share prices and relatively positive economic data, the recent fall of the yen is apparently overdone.
Ryohei Muramatsu
The rise in output prices ... will not ruffle the doves unduly when the MPC meets next month to decide on interest rates.
Daragh Maher
Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.
Abdelmounaim Addas
This is part of a general industry move to consolidate, reduce consumer choice and raise prices.
Paul Hudson
Some sellers in markets that have had rapid appreciation are listing the price of their home too high, but those homes are just languishing in on the market. At the same time, some buyers who have believed hype about a housing bubble are hoping housing prices drop, but that's not happening either.
Thomas Stevens
This not only drives up prices, it forces the demand to spill over and sprawl out to the next best piece of geography up and down the coast and the river.
Bernard Salt
The easing of crude prices appears to have been driven by rising US crude oil inventories and increasing talk of 'demand destruction' in the US as a consequence of hurricanes ... and high retail oil prices.
The Centre
If you're going to try and get in them after the hurricane, you better be bullish really long term. Capacity is going to be back online soon and that could drive prices down even more.
Mark Roach
Our feeling is that with the current surplus of physical crude that prices will continue to erode from here for the next week or two.
Lawrence Eagles
I looked for stocks I was familiar with, and I looked at the prices in the paper just before the end of the year.
David Atkinson
Today the development has gained momentum as is evident from the jump in real estate prices.
Vinod Kumar
The increase in home prices in Pasco County has led to condo conversion of some of the newer rental communities.
Byron Moger
That price is comparable or below prices at Padres games and is still below the NFL average.
Bill Johnston
Prices have skyrocketed. Five or six years ago, no one even considered comic books a serious investment.
John Petty
The economic numbers were nothing less than sweet. The markets were skittish about escalating energy prices, and that never seemed to recede, even though the economy ignored that and ran.
Rich Yamarone
The U.S. is spending a lot of money getting these rigs back up and running. We could see prices pull back to $64.
Ashok Sekar
We have the commodity prices up, so there will be strength in those sectors this morning, ... As long as gold and oil are up, we will have a little bit of strength at the opening.
Peter Byrne
You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is still willing to do a little bit of spending. That all adds up to a positive for the economy.
Gordon Fowler
Oil prices have continued to move higher and equities have apparently taken it badly.
Daniel Katzive
Oil is uncomfortably high; it is inflationary, ... If you are struggling a bit on the continent, as Germany is, you really do not want high input prices.
Hilary Cook
These are low consumer confidence numbers, more than likely affected by the hurricanes and high prices of energy.
Barry Hyman
It's the effect of metal prices. There's been a big move since late last year.
Chuck Bradford
Of course, we don't know whether the price is going to stay at $3. But the longer prices stay at this level, the harder it is to believe that consumers will just carry on doing what they were doing.
Nigel Gault
The quote prices for panels (for the first half of March) were out yesterday, and they were not as bad as the market previously thought.
Bill Huang
Our financing needs have come down substantially as a result of a number of developments over the past six to nine months: higher current and projected oil prices, our growing production and lower borrowing costs.
Peter O'brien
The interest in domestic issues has been intensified by gas prices, which have gotten people to focus on where the economy is right now ? and that leads to jobs.
David Winston
Everyone is looking at what the impact of energy prices will be on the bottom line.
Lex Bouwmeester
If it hits the refineries, and we're short refining capacity, you're going to see gasoline prices well over $3 a gallon at the pump.
Bill Greehey
Natural gas prices increased across the country, including Alberta.
Sebastien Lavoie
By closing out competition from discount brokers and banks, consumers are forced to pay high commissions with little opportunity to shop around for a better deal. With housing prices at an all-time high, there is no better time to bring greater competition into the marketplace.
Wayne Abernathy
The housing boom is really driving up the prices for homes, so $13 million doesn't surprise me. To hear that another skyscraper is going up in Brooklyn is a forgone thought to me.
Nancy Fisher
We are seeing the early warnings of the dawn of international deflation, ... Gold prices are rising because it's a refuge.
James Dines
Higher oil prices may be partly passed through to core inflation at least for a time.
Janet Yellen
Bank blue chips were hurt by the concerns that they may not meet target loan growth this year in this environment of political uncertainties and high oil prices.
Pichai Lertsupongkit
If there is blip in production costs or commodity prices, that's another thing, ... But right now, it's so competitive, retailers can't raise prices.
Karen Sack
The amenities that Hilton Head offers and the quality of the golf and beach and shopping areas attracts a core audience that is not easily going to be dissuaded by (other factors). We're not going to go in the tank, no pun intended, because of what people perceive to be rises in gas prices.
Rich Harrill
Metals prices are surely driving the market, but don't forget the (futures) close-out tomorrow. The close-out is dominating everything currently.
Tubby Goodwin
July's CPI was mainly boosted by higher food prices and rentals.
Daniel Chan
Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices.
Dirceu Alves Ferreira
We've already anticipated the increase in consumer prices. It is not a reason to sell bonds any more.
Norihisa Takao
Energy prices in general have been going up, as are concerns about energy security and climate change.
George Stone
They are moving up the food chain. As long as there is a focus on energy prices, their prospects are pretty good.
William Conroy
On a month-on-month basis, nominal growth in house prices was up about 7% in March. Real month-on-month growth of 9% was recorded in February.
Stanely Kufa
Housing prices are becoming a very significant factor in being able to attract people from other parts of the country.
Carol Schatz
The recent natural disasters along America's Gulf Coast - which displaced more than 1 million people - along with surging gas prices and major corporate layoffs have directly and indirectly impacted the Kingpin Million Dollar Challenge and has left us no other alternative but to postpone the event until 2006.
Dave Woodruff
Agriculture came in better and remittances continued to be good. These two factors reduced the impact of higher oil prices on spending.
Joey Cuyegkeng
Prices on networking products have really gone down because of wide availability. It's certainly affordable for small businesses.
Sanjeev Aggarwal
In the 70s, high oil prices were a shock... People woke up, but then they relaxed.
Colin Campbell
The comments reminded investors of the premium in share prices they have enjoyed due to the excess in liquidity provided by the Bank of Japan.
Tsuyoshi Nomaguchi
JGB prices saw some support from softer stock prices earlier, but caution ahead of today's auction erased some gains.
Ryutaro Matsuyama
High oil prices and their impact on the global economy are a major risk.
Deutsche Bank
You can't charge more for flowers when the guy across the street isn't raising his prices over the extra cost [of gas]. Sometimes, you wind up having to eat that cost.
Bob Heffernan
You can't have prices rise at sharp double-digit rates indefinitely, because you're going to create an affordability problem.
Walter Moloney
We probably won't see prices come back down until the fall, so be prepared to pay a lot more at the pump. It's inevitable.
Yvette Lopez
Earnings estimates are factoring in generous prices and in the second half of the year comparisons are going to get difficult.
Gene Gillespie
It is typical that in January we will see a rise (in prices), this year it looks particularly volatile.
Bryant Gimlin
It's not right at all. They're making billions; [energy] prices are skyrocketing and, meanwhile, they don't want to clean it up.
Steve Lorenc
The market is telling us that the prices are too high and we're doing what we have to do to attract people to the game.
Michael Heisley
It's something that consumers expect. You can easily compare prices and find the best prices online and make the holiday budget stretch a little bit further.
Heather Dougherty
The housing market frenzy, which enticed potential home buyers to rush their purchases before prices moved still higher, has now apparently broken.
Robert Mellman
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