Wheat-based snack food consumption is expected to continue rising this year.

But with prices for LNG rising this year, major producers have boosted investment.

PSA Group and Jaguar Land Rover see their output rising this year in Slovakia.

Oil output in Russia and the United States are both rising this year, he said.

Most forecasters expect house prices to keep rising this year, but at a slower rate.

The company said last month it sees room rates rising this year as business travel rebounds.

Online ad revenue may be rising this year, but it's not doing so at Googlian proportions.

Oil has been rising this year due to supply concerns related to worsening tensions over Iran's disputed nuclear programme.

Public discontent has been rising this year, with sporadic demonstrations over human rights violations such as extrajudicial killings by police.

But demand is rising this year as scheduled subsidy cuts in Germany, the world's largest solar market, are pushing projects forward.

Several lenders said they expect bad loans to continue rising this year, especially from creditors in the steel, wholesale and shipping sectors.

Gross debt will probably keep rising this year, to 65.2 percent of GDP, according to central bank estimates.

FRANKFURT, Jan 25 (Reuters) - German banks see lending to firms rising this year, a German central bank survey showed on Tuesday.

Home prices are seen rising this year and next, though they may dip first and it will take years to recover to pre-crash levels.

Benchmark gasoline prices have been rising this year in line with increases in prices for crude oil, the main input for gasoline and diesel.

International concern has been rising this year at the presence of foreign fighters among Islamist rebels fighting President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's government and AU peacekeepers.