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price competition kept most output prices in check. Small-business owners...prices remained higher than a year ago, and contacts suggested prices

out-the-door new vehicle prices showed year-over-year decreases, and late...The shuttering of a large steel producing facility in Ohio enabled some

Prices Higher input prices, including those for energy, are pushing up...prices have become too high to be fully covered by fuel surcharges and

and, in an effort to slow the growth of aggregate demand and thereby prevent...price declines, along with the elevated volatility of equity prices, also

Key changes in the legal entity structure were: • Consolidation of the...Key Personnel: Detailed work in identifying and retaining key employees

and/or Desk outreach. Source: Bloomberg, Desk Calculations Estimated Size...best bid and offer prices. Source: Brokertec, Desk Calculations Since

prices also continued to edge up, as did prices for certain construction...prices. The price of West Texas intermediate crude oil was almost 25 percent

prices. The high price of young feeder cattle, however, has trimmed profits...prices. Builders reported that prices for some construction materials

and services-sector activity rebounded from several months of sluggishness...prices were headed upward--the first increases he had seen in three to

prices rose, while feed costs fell along with corn and soybean prices....Prices and Costs Price pressures for most raw materials flattened out