hike
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They upgraded EchoStar’s stock to a strong buy with a $115 price target, implying a 25% hike from current trading levels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
A Wall Street tool used to gauge the odds of a rate hike at the Fed’s July 28 meeting is quite low at just 10%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
One example that hit the headlines was the hike in New Jersey Transit train tickets.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Investors are worried about engagement trends and a lack of recent break-through new content, as well as the possibility of higher churn after a price hike in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
A mile’s hike was nothing, under ordinary circumstances.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
We like to go on hikes and walks around Santa Monica.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
When stock-market leadership is as narrow and stretched as it is now, a negative earnings season or data that signals interest-rate hikes could make risk assets more vulnerable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The company said the shortfall in its software and infrastructure business was tied to clients spending on memory ahead of price hikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
While the central bank has a longer run inflation target of 2.0 percent, cost hikes have been higher than that level for around five years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her purse slides off her shoulder, and she hikes it back up.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
Nor was she in the mood to admit that her relationship with business had worsened after she hiked National Insurance tax for employers.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Egg companies significantly hiked prices in 2022 and again in 2024 and 2025 after a severe supply shortage that the industry attributed to avian flu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In addition, there was an element of demand destruction, especially in Asia, where flights were canceled, rationing was imposed and import duties on oil were hiked, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Rinderknecht has acknowledged he hiked up to the area on the night of the fire, and cellphone evidence shows he placed several 911 calls reporting the flames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
But she wasn’t about to go back, so she just hiked up her dress and ran up the street, trying to remember which turns Misha had taken to bring them there.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Not long after, the Bank of Japan surprised markets by hiking rates and delivering a hawkish press conference.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
If the government’s issuance of debt starts to overwhelm what the market demands, some yields might rise even if the Fed isn’t hiking rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He thought that meant she wasn’t interested in him, when, really, she just wasn’t interested in hiking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
But in hiking it so dramatically, Vienna risks widening the price gap with Prague and Budapest -- with visitors to the Czech capital paying only around two euros a night.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
At their camp near the base of a bluff alongside the Green River, Buzz began to fill their backpacks for another day of hiking, trying to lighten their load as much as possible.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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