Nike will post price increases to keep margins

Nike's third-quarter gross margin fell by 1.1 percentage points to 45.8 percent largely due to higher product and airfreight costs. The trend will accelerate in the fourth quarter and persist throughout the next fiscal year ending in May 2012. The company expects a drop of at least 3.0 percentage points ...

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