Survey: Businesses expect to raise prices in 2014
By Ben Leubsdorf, Wall Street Journal
A growing number of U.S. businesses expect to raise prices in the coming months, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics.
About 43 percent of companies plan to raise prices in the first three months of 2014, far more than the 20 percent that said they actually did raise prices in last year’s fourth quarter. Just over half — 56 percent — expect prices to stay flat and about 2 percent expect them to fall.