Sentence examples for prices and consumer from inspiring English sources

Retail sales, retail prices and consumer confidence likewise turned upward.

The second is that the historic link between house prices and consumer spending may reassert itself.

In the final years of the boom, the link between house prices and consumer spending weakened.

Roy Hattersley served as Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection between 1976 and 1979.

Later this week, the government will release data on producer prices and consumer prices.

Low consumer demand, falling housing prices and consumer debt all have the same effect: consumers aren't spending.

These commodity price hikes are likely to affect producer prices and consumer inflation within a couple of years.

Worst of her jobs was "Canute's chair", as secretary for prices and consumer protection with inflation at over 13%.

Commenting on the powers available to save local breweries, a Department of Industry official remarked: "The selective provisions of the (Industry Act 1972) are rather more limited than the impression [the Prices and Consumer Protection Department] seems to have gained".

A Party loyalist in the tempestuous arguments about Common Market entry, Williams thrived as Minister of State for Prices and Consumer Protection under Wilson (1974-76) and Minister of State for Industry under Callaghan (1976-79), whom whem he was particularly close.

When Labour returned to office in 1974, he went to the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection and then the Department of Industry.