Lower demand for Greek debt caused its price to fall, meaning that its yield in terms of market interest rates rose.

This signals a remarkable shift in relative demand for high quality and liquid financial assets an extraordinary rise in market wide excess demand for such assets.

It is not in high demand in the global food market, and thus has little impact on food prices and food security.

The result of a decrease in supply and an increase in demand is higher prices.

Meanwhile, the euro s recent appreciation (particularly against the Japanese yen) limits Europe s ability to compensate for anemic global demand by capturing greater market share.

At the same time, there was a surge in demand for gold jewelry.

The quest for market efficiency has also led to a frightening rise in complexity.

Improved performance or higher quality service does not occur on demand.

However, rising demand in consumer countries was a further complicating factor.

It is projected that world energy demand will continue to grow rapidly in the coming decades.

Key trends in emerging market economies include high and increasing unemployment and low employment rates.

Energy hungry America has long depended on the global market to meet domestic demand.

The main reason for the lag is not simply low demand or large debts.

The lifting of the ban was due to the high demand for timber for rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.

That extra spending means a higher level of nominal GDP (output at market prices).

Consumption, fueled by huge Asian demand for African commodities, is on the rise across the continent.

The premiums would be set so that there would be no reason for insurance companies to withdraw from the market in response to greater risk.

A monopoly is poison for a market economy, because it increases prices and decreases volume.

At some point, companies will be ready to sell products, and market demand can take over.

Even Iraqi merchants import black clothes more than any other color, to meet demands of the marketplace.

The first path is to boost demand for goods and services, and then sit back and watch employment rise as businesses hire people to make the goods and services to meet that demand.

When an economy is suffering from high unemployment and weak aggregate demand, spending cuts are contractionary.

The high price of oil was governed by the market and was beyond the control of energy exporting countries.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

With rising demand, firms would hire, and all would be well.

America s domestic demand shortfall reflects rising savings, balance sheet damage in the household sector, unemployment, and fiscal distress.

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low.

Central banks respond to lowered demand by reducing interest rates and to higher expected inflation by raising interest rates.

In the longer run, that gap needs to be filled by higher foreign demand and increased export potential.

And, with demand high and housing supply fixed at least in the short run prices go up.

As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3 5 times.

In the context of a recovering world economy, and given a sustained surge in demand from developing countries, particularly from China, India and countries of Latin America, world demand for oil grew steadily in 2004.

However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients.

And it cannot produce structural adjustment at all until a demand recovery is well under way.

That means that oil prices have increased in other countries, which should have reduced, not increased, demand.

Unfortunately, the market cannot produce a demand recovery rapidly by itself.

At the same time, Japan s demographic trends will boost demand for fiscal expenditure, as pension and health care costs rise.

Indeed, America s current account position strengthened despite the dollar s appreciation in the face of safe haven demand.

But students of economics will no doubt remember an early encounter with Giffen goods, which violate the usual pattern.

Reflecting their faith in markets, most economists dismiss the idea that speculation is responsible for the price rise.

There are market economies that are doing better, both in terms of both GDP growth and rising living standards for most citizens.

When the demand for potatoes at the current price exceeds supply, the price of potatoes rises, signaling scarcity.

Market fundamentals will continue to determine the long term trend in oil prices, and point to a tight market in which supply cannot keep pace with demand.

In the 550 scenario, energy demand up to 2030 rises by about 32 , with the share of fossil fuels falling markedly, and average demand up 1.2 yearly, compared to 1.6 in the Reference Scenario.

Moreover, boom in global consumption of cocaine owing to higher demand in Europe and Latin America, together with stable demand in the United States has brought new income to some Bolivians.