Sentences with phrase «prices spiked last»

US picked it up, why OUR food prices spiked last year.)

Aluminum cash prices spiked last month to more than $ 2,600 a ton after U.S. sanctions hit Russian metals producer Rusal, responsible for 6 percent of the world's aluminum.

This price spike lasted for less than an hour.

It's safe to say the price spike last year sparked a lot of attention, but since the price has drifted downwards interest has waned.

Not exact matches

OTTAWA — Rising gasoline and car prices fuelled the first significant spike in Canada's cost of living since February last month, lifting the annual inflation by half a point to 1.2 per cent — still low by historial standards.

Still, Sal Guatieri, a senior BMO economist, wrote last week that «in no way are family incomes growing fast enough to justify the rampant price moves,» nor can it be explained by a sudden spike in mortgage lending, which was given a boost by the Bank of Canada's two rate cuts last year.

An oil price crash and an unemployment rate that spiked to nine per cent last year did not cause the residential real estate market to crater, as some feared.

Prices spike dramatically in the last two weeks leading up to the December holiday, according to airfare prediction app Hopper.

Last year, that commodity contributed 53 % of its gross profit and it supplied nearly 75 % of the total during the first quarter of 2017 due to a spike in steelmaking coal prices.

As a sign of how quickly the economy's prospects are changing (mainly as a result of the spike in oil prices) economists at Lehman Brothers lowered their growth expectations twice in the last three weeks.

In fact, a sudden price spike is the last thing that we want to see happening.

ENERGY: Oil prices fell back from spikes last week on fears over an escalation of strife in the Middle East.

The average price for a gallon of unleaded regular shot up 13 cents in just three days last week in response to a spike in crude oil prices on the global market.

That came to fruition last week as upside volume reached its highest levels since early - November 2015 when the price briefly spiked above $ 500 (see chart above).

Finance secretary Hasmukh Adhia had last month and economic affairs secretary Subhash Garg had last week ruled out any immediate reduction in excise duty to cushion the increases warranted from spike in international oil price.

With oil reserves headed inexorably for depletion, shortages and more wild price swings (like last summer's $ 147 - a-barrel spike) very likely loom ahead.

Last year, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration closed the Alaska pollock season early after alarms were raised over low catch numbers, sending prices for the fish spiking temporarily.

As they did with the last price spike in 2008, when the highest recorded price of a gallon of regular gas in Florida hit $ 4.08 on July 16, Florida dealers are seeing an increase in customer interest in fuel mileage.

Sales should have spiked last summer, when gasoline prices hit a national high of $ 4.11 a gallon on July 17.

Gas prices have taken a wild ride over the last few years, spiking to nearly $ 5 a gallon in some places before dropping back down.

Chinese investors have also spiked home prices in the Toronto region, but Vancouver has seen the highest rise in real estate due to the influx of foreign money reaching an unprecedented level in the last year, he said.

Unfortunately I didn't take advantage of the spike up in price last Wednesday and Thursday to sell shares; I calculated, wrongly, that the spike would take place Friday, the day before the auction closed.

House prices in Toronto have begun to stabilize after dropping sharply from last year's dramatic spike, while prices in Vancouver have rebounded.

I added that there is a tendency for gas prices to rise a little in the summer, but that it wasn't always so, and that refiners are not running at capacity, as it was the last time gas prices spiked.

So if someone places a market order to buy 1M shares and there aren't that many shares on available at any price, all the sell orders will fill, the last price will spike to what the highest ask was, and... then what?

An oil price crash and an unemployment rate that spiked to nine per cent last year did not cause the residential real estate market to crater, as some feared.

The price spike is due to flooding from the devastating storm that began knocking out refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast last week.

Early last year, when fuel costs spiked, pet food prices rose dramatically.

Auction prices for the Colombian - born painter Oscar Murillo, hailed by some as the new Jean - Michel Basquiat, settled down to under $ 350,000 in London after spiking at a record $ 401,000 at Phillips last month in New York.

I see absolutely no reason that this food price spike is any different from any of the ones in the last four decades: ie, a normal self - correcting phenomenon in which a slight imbalance between demand and supply is reflected in a price rise, which will result in higher output next harvest.

Just as the Administration does not consider building a dam in the Grand Canyon during times of drought, we will not consider opening one of the last pristine ecosystems of North America during an oil price spike.»

It reduces our dependence on volatile prices, set by whatever the most recent unrest in the Middle East is; for example, over the last month, we have seen a 10 % oil price spike on news of a restart of Egypt's unrest — and they're not even a major oil producer!

As the solar trade case loomed for much of last year, regulatory uncertainty drove price spikes.

Ironically, had these regulations been in place for the last two years, Massachusetts might have seen increased investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy generation that would have mitigated the price spikes we've seen these past two winters by reducing our dependence on natural gas.

Even Saudi Arabia, the largest exporter of oil in the world, told the Bush administration back in 2008, during the last major spike in oil prices, that speculation was responsible for about $ 40 of a barrel of oil.

A spike in vegetable prices has fanned food inflation in India, where prices last month were 7 percent higher than a year earlier.

Mr. Chu, who was expected to get a friendly and brief review by the committee on Energy and Natural Resources, said in prepared testimony that «last year's rapid spike in oil and gasoline prices not only contributed to the recession we are now experiencing, it also put a huge strain on the budgets of families all across America.»

Then you factor in a host of other upwardly - spiraling costs, such as a 30 - cent spike in gasoline prices and grocery bills that have shot up more than 10 percent in the last month, and it becomes clear the family budget is under pressure from all sides.

«Given the enormous spike in bitcoin prices towards the latter half of last year, it could be a few more months before supply for high end GPUs matches up with demand and constraints ease,» Brody said.

That came to fruition last week as upside volume reached its highest levels since early - November 2015 when the price briefly spiked above $ 500 (see chart above).

The company has struggled to handle both technical and customer support operations during the massive spikes in price, new users and transactions over the last few months.

And in order to understand if the price is ready to retrace, we need to analyse what were the reasons of sharp spike higher seen last week.

For example, bitcoin traded close to $ 20,000 per coin last year, with predictions of further price spikes.

During the last bitcoin price spike in 2013 many changed hands on eBay for about ~ USD$ 3,000.

Since our last price piece, everyone's favorite digital currency has spiked by nearly $ 20, and is now hovering at around $ 767 at press time.

The attacks make up 24 percent of all online attacks blocked in last December, and 16 percent of online attacks blocked in the last three months of 2017, correlating with the spikes in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies» prices last year.

Ripple Runs In the last 24 or so hours, the price of Ripple (XRP) has abruptly spiked

Ethereum also spiked lower by more than 15 % compared to its recent record levels, and the price of the ETH token is testing last week's highs as we speak.

«HPSI rebounded from last month's dip to a new survey high in January, in large part due to the spike in consumers» net expectations that home prices will increase over the next year,» Duncan says.

Fernely prices spiked in the last 3 months.