The TV networks want to be able to hike prices when the mood strikes and be able to implement stricter DRM.

Without piracy keeping prices to a more reasonable level then that industry would hike prices to a vastly inflated level.

The move will help Fiat regain market share from French and German importers, which have hiked prices after recent currency crises.

Colleges say they hike prices because their own costs keep rising, but that's misleading.

In 1962, big steel makers defied him and hiked prices amid hard economic times.

It shifted its focus from hiking prices to maintaining its market share in the face of all sorts of new competitors.

Since 2009, private hospitals operating to American and European standards have hiked prices by 20-30 per cent, leading to strong protests from patients and health insurers alike.

And when the high season begins on Dec. 21, many hotels will hike prices by 50 to 100 percent.

Predictions that the GECF would hike prices are for now groundless.

Having said that they did give themselves room for manoeuvre by hiking prices in August and September.