91.   Even if wholesale price growth picked up, though, there are buffers in Germany which would prevent a knock-on surge in consumer prices.

92.   Even so, gasoline inventories have been significantly higher recently than they were a year ago, while wholesale prices are well under this time last year.

93.   Electric providers use wholesale prices to set retail rates for homeowners and businesses.

94.   Elsewhere too, authorities say retail prices are falling, reflecting both a drop in wholesale prices and a long-overdue increase in gasoline production.

95.   Energy and food prices both declined last month, helping keep wholesale prices unchanged for the second time in the last three months.

96.   Except for the tax increase, consumer and wholesale prices were unchanged or lower in the quarter.

97.   Falling wholesale prices reflect waning consumer demand for pork products, analysts said.

98.   Falling wholesale prices reflect waning consumer demand for pork products.

99.   Falling wholesale prices reflect waning consumer demand for pork.

100.   Expectations that German rates will rise slumped in recent weeks as reports showed slowing money supply growth, waning business confidence and falling wholesale prices.