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This article discusses how the inflation rate of the UK has decreased to 1.7% - a four-year low. This is in cohesion to increasing wages, and Prime Minister Cameron has used this to praise his cabinet's economic policy, aiming to further decrease the rate to 1% by the end of the year.

This article highlights how the UK inflation rate has fallen to a four-year low of 1.7%. The drop in petrol prices is the main reason of this fall in inflation rates.

This is an article describing how there is a decrease in demand for Indian coffee. The factor that caused this drop in demand was that large nations were looking for cheaper coffees. If the price of coffee is decreased, it is likely that the quantity sold would increase (demand curve)

This article looks at what part of the business cycle the Australian economy currently is in. The author describes in good detail how certain aspects of the ending of a recession; lower unemployment due to big firms laying off employees and low interest rates, and low inflation.

Annual inflation has remained low. In december economists expected prices to rise, however inflation remained constant and below the Federal Reserve's annual target of 2%. Gas prices in December increased. They had never increased so much not even the last time in June when they rose of a 3.6%.

This article talks about how the US has imposed tariffs on importers of Chinese solar panels. The Chinese panels were being sold in the World market at a very low price due to subsidies that the Chinese government had been giving to solar panel manufacturers which resulted in the low selling price. Due to this, demand was high in the US for these panels as opposed to domestically made panels, therefore the aim of the tariffs was to increase the price of the panels so that people in the US would buy locally made panels boosting the local solar industry as opposed to the Chinese one.

This article covers how the South African Rand has fallen due to trade deficits.

This article talks about the official data of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate within the eurozone. The low and stable inflation and unemployment being near 12% causes concern about a decreased GDP, as experts fear a deflation would defer consumption and investment.

It is the story of a dairy farmer who sold milk for very low prices and other producers complained and tryied to get back their clients

The mayor of Chicago, USA, Rahm Emanuel, wants to place a specific tax on cigarette packs, 75c per unit more than before. Though he sais he is doing it in the city's best interest: to have more city funds available for low-income children with vision problems, and other projects that require funding.

This article discusses the impact of low economic development in an exemplary LEDC, Kenya. It explains how freshwater is very scarce and how it has hurt the growth of agriculture in the country's poorest county, Turkana County, but also outlines how the discovery of new water reserves could possibly combat this. Unfortunately, though due to the underdeveloped infrastructure of the region, and the inefficient enterprise (in this case, the government), it could be difficult to realise a steady supply of water. Thus, a vicious cycle is formed, in which development increases at a snail's pace.

Due to the rise in cost for Netflix of obtaining contracts for movies, Netflix has compensated by increasing the price of its DVD mail-service. However, Netflix's mail-order subscription service is neither a necessity nor without heavy competition, hence it has a low PED. This has caused Netflix to see a drop in monthly subscribers to the service, as people switch to less expensive options or competitors.

This deals with how prices are set in marketplace. When it was said that iPhone 5C will be a low-cost phone people were interested and now that it isn't they are makind orders smaller. The bright side is that other iPhones are ordered more.

This article describes the launch plans and the Xbox marketing chief's opinions on the profits made shortly after the launch in late November. He sais that even though all pre-orders have been sold out, due to the production, marketing, and development costs, there will be a very low margin at first. So even though the demand is very high, the price and supply are to inelastic to provide a higher margin for Microsoft.

The article discusses the development around a planned economic integration to the political African Union (AU). Plans were made to establish a free trade agreement amongst the large AU, however officials have deplored the low level of sustainability among member states, and general non-inclusive attitude of many economies.

A law maker in Argentina is vowing for tax relief for Farmers in order to lessen the load on them to allow for lower prices for exports, in order to raise the country's trade balance, which is phenomenally low.