price spikes
Sudden cost jumps
Price spikes are sudden, sharp increases in the cost of something, typically commodities, stocks, or essential goods.
The term implies a rapid upward movement followed by a return toward normal levels, unlike a sustained price increase: Oil price spikes during the crisis sent gasoline above five dollars a gallon.
Markets may experience price spikes due to supply disruptions, panic buying, or speculation.
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- inflationSustained price level increase
- cost of livingPrice of basic necessities
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
- skyrocketRise sharply and suddenly
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- Market Volatilitymarket crash, flash crash, boom and bust, bear market, bull market
- Price DataCPI, trade data
- real estatehouse, home, apartment, property, sale
- crop threatspests, pest, blight, drought, disease
- Droughtwater shortage, dry spell, dry spells, no rain, low rainfall
- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, famine victims, crop failure
price spikesprice stability
Consistent general price levels
market stability · fixed prices · price ceilings · price controls
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