So how might customers cut their gas bills by 15% before then to avoid a price hike?
The pharmaceutical companies, for example, are not giving the chemists medicines because they are waiting for a price hike.
Why did it take Netflix until mid-September to address the fallout from a price hike it announced in mid-July?
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Twenty-five cities in November and 12 in October experienced a price hike on a yearly basis, indicating a rally in the housing market.
Reed Hastings needs all the friends he can get at the moment after infuriating people with a price hike that ended up costing Netflix subscribers.
The renewed agreement allows for a price hike of 7% in any of the four years of the six year agreement for both the domain names.
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The movie-rental company didn't back off a price hike it implemented in July, however an increase for which CEO Reed Hastings issued an apology for failing to explain it better.
Urbanchuk did a study comparing a price hike for oil against the same price hike for corn, which in some form or another shows up in a lot of food.
Casey's buys its gas in the spot market, but sometimes it can't recover a price hike immediately at the pump, since some of the competition is buying on long-term contracts and can afford to respond more gradually.
The rocky public relations that Netflix has weathered with a price hike and then a blundered effort to spin off its DVD rental service to a different site also sent shares in the Nasdaq stock down 21%.
This is a tale of two editorials today: one in Utah, lambasting a lawmaker for trying to sneak a price hike into energy bills to pay for a proposed nuclear plant, and one in Florida, demanding the repeal of just such a price hike, which has collected hundreds of millions from ratepayers for nuclear plants that may never be built.
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Only Iran, which had the most generous subsidy regime, has managed a big price hike and it had a handy scapegoat in the form of sanctions.
Just 51 percent of boomers would agree to a 50 cents a gallon price hike.
Also, a menu price hike generally impacts same-store sales positively.
The analyst says his more bullish view on Siris reflects continued improvement in U.S. auto sales and evidence that a precent price hike is not affecting churn, retention and discounting as much as he had feared.
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It also means, however, that imported goods have seen a big price-hike.
In Connecticut regulators recently rejected a 20% price hike.
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The stock, of course, has been plagued by a combination of a poorly received price hike and an ill-conceived (and quickly canceled) plan to separate the company into two businesses, one to rent DVDs by mail and the other to stream video digitally.
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By snatching Cavill up now for Superman, Warner Bros. is securing the actor before he has a chance to hike his price if Immortals is a hit.
The government has refuted a China Business Times report on Monday of a 30% gas price hike that triggered nationwide panic buying and long queues for fuel, says Southern Metropolis Daily.
But it is certain, as opposed to merely likely, that the recent oil-price hike is a substantial negative supply shock.
Seafood restaurant Gamba Glasgow has removed lobster from its menu after facing a 72.4% price hike in the past three weeks.
In part, the MQM walked out in opposition to a planned hike in the oil price.
To what degree would the price hike lead to a decline in sales?
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On the Netflix company blog this weekend, Hastings apologized for his handling of the price hike and outlined a plan to split off the DVD-mailing business under a new brand, Qwikster.
In 2005 and 2006 MLB teams increased ticket prices an average of 5% each season, following up with a relatively modest 2.8% price hike for 2007.
Beijing and Guangzhou cities both posted a monthly gain of 3.1%, the highest price hike in China.
We discussed in a recent note that rising content costs and competition from a Dish-owned Blockbuster and others were prime drivers to this price hike, see Netflix Bets on Customer Loyalty as Higher Costs Force Price Hike.
"This is just a sort of ambit claim to get Foster's to hike the price, " said ABN Asset Management analyst Matthew Hoult.
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