sentences: against such a background, commodity  prices  have  registered  a  narrower  increase  because  of  cooling  demand,  whereas  services  price  increase  have  remained  stubbornly  strong  as  a  partial  shift  of  consumer demand from commodity to services boosted demand for foodbeverage  and entertainment services and the related imbalance between services labor supply  and  demand  also  pushed  up  labor  costs