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High
gas prices hurt U.S. confidence: Reuters/Ipsos poll
from Reuters
Rising U.S. gasoline prices have damaged confidence
in the country's future and forced Americans to
change their spending habits and lifestyles, a Reuters/Ipsos
poll released on Wednesday found. |
Retail
Sales Rose In March As Inflation Fears Emerge For
Food, Gas Prices
from forbes.com
Retail numbers from the Commerce Department Wednesday
show that consumers have found more spending momentum
to meet rising commodity and materials costs that
are already being passed directly to consumers
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Economic
Optimism Sinks in March
from seekingalpha.com
That sucking sound you hear is the sound of soaring
gasoline prices crushing consumer confidence –
the lifeblood of the global economy for more than
a generation.
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Rising
Gas Prices Force Consumers To Make Choices
from npr.com
In some parts of the country, gasoline prices have
hit $4 a gallon. The U.S. Energy Department estimates
gas prices nationally will average $3.86 per gallon
through the summer. |
Sky-high
gas prices could delay recovery
from bizjournals.com
With gas prices rising to a national average of
$4 a gallon, analysts are growing more concerned
rising prices will affect the fragile economic recovery.
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Gas
Prices: Are We at the Breaking Point?
from time.com
Gas stations might want to think about offering
direct deposit.
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Inflation
stokes fears over shopper resilience
from marketwatch.com
As gasoline prices rose by a third in the past year
to an average of $3.80 a gallon, with cotton costs
more than doubling, and with other inflationary
pressures also looming on the horizon, worries about
the resilience of U.S. consumers have intensified. |
Oil
prices key risk to solid global recovery: IMF
from Yahoo! News
The global economy is firmly on the mend in 2011
but faces rising headwinds, particularly from higher
oil prices. |
Three
Reasons Oil Prices Could Drop to $85 a Barrel
from wsj.com
Oil prices are in retreat, and it could be the start
of a return to saner energy prices. As recently
as mid-January, light, sweet crude fetched $85 a
barrel. Today, oil is in retreat, but still above
$107 a barrel.
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High
oil prices are here to stay
from csmonitor.com
A number of forces continued to push oil prices
higher last week, reaching their highest levels
in the U.S. since September 2008. |
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