Analysts said the central bank's action reflected its concern about the inflationary risks of a three-year boom in housing loans, starts and prices fueled by historically low mortgage rates.

Higher prices for hogs, corn, hay, broilers and lettuce fueled the increase over the last month, the department's Agricultural Statistics Board said in its preliminary report.

And those prices have been fueling a record number of sales.

The low price for GTE's shares fueled speculation that an unsolicited bidder for GTE, perhaps BellSouth, could emerge.

Those high prices also fuel the need for prostitution, theft and violence, meaning we all suffer, not just the drug users.

Since the late 1990s, both high demand and resulting high prices have fueled increased smuggling of slow lorises to Japan.

The advancing prices tripped buy-stops and fueled the rally, traders said.

The high price of oil and other commodities provided by these countries is fueling the solid economic growth across Latin America.

Because the Canadian government negotiates on behalf of all of its citizens, prices there for branded drugs are, on average, about half those in the United States, fueling what has become a vigorous, if illegal, cross-border trade.

It is an irony that the artificially high price of diamond has fueled the research that will shortly undermine the price structure.