upward

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Firms reported improvements in demand conditions and customer spending, but input costs rose at the sharpest pace for nearly a year-and-a-half, with material shortages adding to the upward pressure, according to S&P Global.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This impressive outcome marked a significant upward revision from earlier forecasts that had projected slower growth,” OCBC’s Selena Ling says in an email.

From The Wall Street Journal

"With both demand clarity and supply constraints converging, suppliers have steadily pushed prices upward, in some cases aggressively," he said.

From BBC

In that setup, the top of the price chart forms a flat line which represents resistance, and the bottom a line that slopes upward as buyers pick up the stock at an increasingly higher price.

From MarketWatch

Each notch upward translates into more extreme weather, more crop failures, more extinct species and more human deaths.

From Salon