1.   Nor are they worried about the rise in cigarette and cigar prices since neither smokes.

2.   Analysts said the biggest gain in the producer prices since January was due mostly to an annual adjustment in the way the government measures auto prices.

3.   As a result, the Santiago Stock Exchange posted its largest one day fall in share prices since the height of the Mexican and Argentine financial crisis in March.

4.   As evidence, some cite the surge in oil prices since the August inflation report was compiled.

5.   Bear Stearns appears to have considerable leverage in setting the price since the market is illiquid.

6.   Because prices are set months in advance and are paid in dollars, there has been little change in tour prices since the devaluation.

7.   Big hotels and international airlines have been using dollar prices since long before the peso was devalued last December.

8.   But consumers are already seeing the highest oil prices since the Gulf War.

9.   California drivers have been paying steadily higher prices since early April.

10.   Coffee surged, posting its biggest gain in three months, as roasters snapped up supplies at the lowest prices since January.