41.   Shareholders suing tobacco companies have opened another legal front, asserting that the failure to disclose damaging information inflated share prices.

42.   Small wonder that natives in New Mexico and Colorado complain about immigrants from California inflating home prices.

43.   Some companies have sued their investment banks for artificially inflating the price of a merger by leaking news to certain individuals before it was publicly disclosed.

44.   Stock scams often rely on inflating the price of the stock and selling shares to investors.

45.   Such increases, the dealers assert, would force them to inflate prices sharply for customers -- mainly retail fish stores and restaurants -- or leave the market.

46.   Such tactics would artificially inflate the price of stocks, which the defendants then sold at an illicit profit, the agents said.

47.   That eliminates the incentive for producers to default, but critics say it inflates the price for sugar and sugar products.

48.   That could further inflate prices.

49.   The brokers make unauthorized purchases, or match purchases and sales of the shares, to inflate their price before dumping them, he said.

50.   The class actions alleged the company colluded with rivals and inflated the price of a livestock feed supplement called lysine.