A spike in long term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending.

The second price spike occurred when Lehman Brothers collapsed, leaving investors scared about the safety of their financial assets including bank deposits.

Investors subsequent efforts to price in the risk of a eurozone breakup not the volume of sovereign debt caused bond yields to spike.

Meanwhile, on the supply side, countries are dealing with high and volatile commodity prices, including an oil price spike as a result of the Middle East uprisings.

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With the US and Israel unwilling to accept containment of a nuclear Iran by deterrence, a military confrontation in 2013 would lead to a massive oil price spike and global recession.

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But the scale of the price spike exceeds normal demand and supply factors, pointing to the role of speculation and underscoring the need for policy action to clean up the oil market.

While China s consumer price index rose 5.3 in the year ending in July 2004, this was due primarily to a spike in food prices both before and since, inflation has been negligible.

A spike in long term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending. The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

Some central bankers tell us not to worry, because they will be much more disciplined than central banks were in the 1970 s, when the world faced a similar commodity price spike. This time is different, though.

Absent a change in trader beliefs, the current oil price spike will be broken only by a recession that exhausts consumers capacity to buffer higher prices, or when the slow process of substitution away from oil kicks in.

Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

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Now, Steve, you know where the spike is, but nobody else, does? Correct?

Let's hope that the effects of the present spike will be more short lived.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

After the first wave (early 1880s) there was another spike in aliyah in 1890.

Do you think the spike is under your left hand, or under your right hand?

There was a spike, of course, a few years before, but that wasn't actually Queensland.

But could they have predicted this unprecedented spike less than halfway through the Earth's life?

A spike in defaults could destabilize the entire financial system and trigger an economic downturn.

Indeed, the spike in oil prices actually gives independent producers an incentive to boost production.

The outcome, preceded by a spike in extremist violence, is likely to reverberate far and wide.

Perhaps the dollar will collapse and there will be a burst of inflation in the US as the Federal Reserve Board decides that temporarily abandoning its price level peg is a lesser evil than the unemployment fallout that will result from a dollar collapse and interest rate spike.

What's interesting is the spike on the back of the Dracorex was growing very fast as well.

Indeed, opinion polls conducted in Gaza show a spike in support for Hamas after every Israeli escalation.

So, now you don't know where the spike is, and I don't know where it is either, OK.

GENEVA The recent sharp spike in food prices and growing concerns about food security have sparked anxiety worldwide.

The rapid spike in prices would harm all economies that import oil, regardless of where it comes from.

Direct talks also have some well known liabilities. Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.

Even a temporary spike in oil prices can have long term effects because of the social reactions they provoke.

If that happens, oil prices could rapidly spike and, as in the summer of 2008, trigger a global recession.

For example, the recent spike in oil prices would have been driven by an irrational frenzy in futures markets.

First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy.

Ask price, also called offer price, offer, asking price, or simply ask, is the price a seller states she or he will accept for a good.

Such developments would cause US debt yields to spike, disrupting growth. The dollar would become weaker, leaving investors wrong footed.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

Not surprisingly, the spike in food prices was a contributing factor in the civil unrest that sparked the Arab Spring.

In Darfur, a spike in attacks by armed militia forces left civilians dead or injured, thousands displaced and homes destroyed.

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That could cause their interest rates to spike upward and their national debts to rise rapidly, thus making them effectively insolvent.

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It is thanks to the spike in the CDS market that the Greek government tightened its budget and improved its fiscal position.