21. Reports this week will show whether prices at the wholesale level in Germany are rising at a rate that could spill through to consumer prices. 22. Sales of autos at the wholesale level also rose during the month, along with sales of drugstore sundries, paper products, and alcoholic beverages. 23. Second, we did have very good inflation numbers -- declines at the wholesale level and pretty low, tame numbers at the retail level. 24. Signs price pressures at the wholesale level are easing will please U.K. monetary authorities, who have been concerned higher output prices will ultimately feed through to retail prices. 25. Such transactions could apply the market forces that already exist at the wholesale level to the level of the electricity user, possibly even a homeowner. 26. That means lower pork supplies at the wholesale level, which could boost prices for currently available hog supplies next week, analysts said. 27. The bad news is memory prices at the wholesale level have already started rising, which means the prices paid by consumers may not be far behind. 28. The company will buy cellular service on the wholesale level and resell it to retail customers. 29. The company already sells electricity at the wholesale level, acting as broker between electric utilities that have power to spare with those who are short. 30. The data will provide a picture of price pressures at the wholesale level and clues about future inflation. |