Margin Squeeze Price Increases Interest Hikes Margins Continue to be Squeezed Margins have been attacked from virtually all sides À competitive pressure, overhead and labor costs, health care and insurance costs. As an example, the chart below illustrates the semi-annual cost rate for natural gas in the Baltimore market from 2000 through the first part of 2006.

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