The company did not disclose the reason for the latest increase.

But with the latest increases in unemployment, even that may be too low.

Much of the latest increase results from a big rise in health insurance costs, which have gone up gradually for two years.

Hospital and drug costs were the main factors in the latest increase.

The latest increase brought the hog price to the highest level since last September.

Even with the latest increase, construction activity has been sluggish this year.

Even with the latest increase, multifamily construction is 9.1 percent below the level of a year ago.

The latest increase - like the others, one-quarter of a percentage point - had been expected.

The latest increase is the largest since the second quarter of 1983.

The latest increase is 1.75 percent, which is less than the rate of inflation.