Higher food and energy prices put upward pressure on price levels in the subregion, which was partially offset by fuel subsidies in some countries.

The increase in the supply of resources will exert some pressure on soaring steel prices.

Energy companies are under pressure from lower crude oil prices, an economic situation compounded by the British decision in June to leave the European Union.

Increasing competition puts pressure on large telecommunications companies, and the prices of some services tend to decrease.

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.

That puts a lot of pressure on Greenland.

Pressure on prices could be such that even efficient producers could be threatened by their inability to recover fixed costs as a result of being forced to price at short term marginal cost.

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Prices of food, even staple foods, have shot up beyond the reach of average citizens.

True, market forces have spurred innovation, which has continually driven down the price of processed food, even as the price of plain old fruits and vegetables has gone up. That is a fair point, but it overlooks the huge market failure here.

CA So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.

Such price increases can prove particularly inflationary in countries that import commodities. And they can be disastrous to exporting economies, which risk rapid currency appreciation and thus a loss of competitiveness.

With non OPEC oil producers following suit, oil production was approaching full capacity in the first quarter of 2005, thereby heightening speculative pressures for price increases.

The enormous pressure of fuel price volatility on our emerging economies is becoming a brake and a factor of distortion for any development plan.

Significant price pressures emerged in the other subregional economies.

Growing use by retailers of own brands and discount retailing have also been driving prices down significantly.

With production capacity stretched to the limit, oil prices remained vulnerable to upward pressures.

There is also the issue of the so called reserve price (the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for a good or service). The reserve price places a cap on how high commodity prices will go, as it is the price at which demand destruction occurs (consumers are no longer willing or able to purchase the good or service).

The fiscal position in both Australia and New Zealand remained strong in 2004 but monetary policy was tightened in the latter in the face of a build up of price pressures in recent months, and additional measures are expected if oil prices remain high.

Therefore, in this new round of adjustment, it is the price of the products of heavy and chemical industries that is undergoing the deepest adjustment, thus inevitably bringing downward pressure on the economy of Liaoning.

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Rising oil prices, unforeseen tsunami related expenditures and revenue shortfalls from the tourism sector are creating significant, alarmingly intense fiscal pressures.

(c) Excessive capital inflows can create problems such as currency appreciation, a rise in asset prices, an increase in money supply and subsequent inflationary pressures.

261. The price reform (freeing electricity consumption prices and solid and liquid fuel prices) resulted in a drop in electric power consumption, as well as in emissions of sulphuric acid, solid particles and other pollutants of power generation.

This in turn will translate into rising pressure on the inspection and evaluation capacity of the Office.

(2) The transaction price or the price range

It all starts when some imbalance causes overall inflation or some key price typically the exchange rate, but also power, water, and gasoline to come under upward pressure. The government then uses its coercive power to keep a lid on price growth.

They just care about three things and three things only price, price and price.

It was further alleged that Chilanga Cement had been suppressing the local supply of cement in order to raise prices.

Compared with neighbouring countries, labour in Syria is cheap.

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These may be either the best country prices or perhaps even international prices, but they are not local farm gate prices.

In particular, the volatility of food and commodity prices, including petroleum prices, is seriously denting the financing capacity of many poor countries.

Export subsidies were creating competitive price pressures on farmers in developing countries in their own domestic markets by reducing demand for domestically produced agricultural goods.

Many countries had opened their markets to foreign presence in various forms as a means of achieving better health services, reducing price escalation, and taking pressure off the public sector.

As a result, domestic prices were allowed to deviate from international ones.

The downward pressure on wages in those jobs was a result of global competition and placed serious limits on women's bargaining power in relation to wages.

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An increasingly prosperous China has not only expanded imports from other countries, but is also providing goods that have kept prices lower in the West, despite sharply higher oil prices in recent years. This downward pressure on prices has allowed Western central banks to follow expansionary monetary policies, underpinning higher employment and growth.