Sentence examples for spur prices from inspiring English sources

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is expected to announce production cuts of 1.5 million barrels per day by the end of the week, in an attempt to spur prices higher.

The lift to growth from increased household spending capacity should eventually spur price rises.

With any luck, the competition between music services will spur price wars, product innovation, and specialization.

Turkey abandoned the defense of its currency, the lira, on Feb. 22, setting off a devaluation and spurring price increases.

It comes just days after it started a probe into price fixing of infant milk by foreign companies - a move which has already spurred price cuts.

On the fundamentals side, they look for new products, new management or company restructurings that can spur share prices.

Oil companies, on the other hand, argue that consolidations do not spur increased prices, but instead create efficiencies that allow for lower operating costs and increased production.

Rather than increase the supply of housing and keep rents down, negative gearing merely provides a tax break that encourages people to buy speculatively in the housing market – helping to spur house prices and thus reduce affordability.

That is nowhere near the conditions that helped spur the price spike before the recession hit.

The head of the House subcommittee with responsibility for mutual funds introduced legislation last week that could give investors more information about the fees they are paying, and perhaps in the process spur more price competition among funds.

He said today, "Our strong message is that there should not be steep production cuts at the next OPEC meeting because that will spur a price hike that is unhealthy for the world economy".