Exports shot up 19.1percentt in the last three months of 2003, and all signs point to further increases ahead.
THE downside risk to further increases in Canadian stock prices is the 800-pound gorilla next door.
Other analysts said the figures would add weight to those on the MPC arguing for a softly softly approach to further increases in borrowing costs.
The poorest pensioners can look forward to further increases because Income Support payments (through the pensioner income guarantee) will increase in line with earnings rather than prices.
In July, Greece received a loan installment of 5.7 billion euros after Parliament agreed to further increases in taxes and cuts in the public payroll.
A breakthrough on disease control, conversely, would help to unleash a virtuous circle of rising productivity, better education, lower fertility rates -- and then lead to further increases in health and prosperity.
That nervousness is likely to spread elsewhere, with so many economies still fragile in the wake of the worldwide economic downturn and with the possibility that higher crude prices could lead to further increases in food prices.
Still, irreversible damage has already been done; carbon emissions have contributed to global warming while other pollutants have damaged the ecosystem, wildlife and human health, leading to further increases in respiratory diseases over the next decades.
Economists suggested that the good news and consumer confidence might feed off each other, leading to further increases in spending that, they hope, will be followed by the wage increases necessary to sustain that spending.
Asked whether Spain's commitment to meeting its deficit targets might require further action, despite signs of a deepening recession, Mr. Rajoy would say only that he hoped to avoid resorting to further increases in income and sales taxes in next year's budget.
In the 2000s, the same original increases in the CPI have not led to increases in nominal wages, and thus to further increases in prices.That is, it used to be that when prices went up, wages went up, presumably because workers had more bargaining power pre-1984.
