Crucial ideas about the role of prices and markets, the basic principles of microeconomics, are uncontroversial among economists.
"The economy still faces powerful contractionary forces in the shape of widespread recession abroad, and at home falling house prices and stock markets, blunted monetary policy as banks constrain lending and rock-bottom business and consumer confidence, " says Andrew Smith, chief economist at KPMG.
Property prices and stock markets languished below their pre-1929 levels until World War II shocked production back to life.
Market pundits seize on this oil-stock correlation, some 82 percent between crude oil prices and equity markets since the bottom in 2008.
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This is puzzling, because Britain's steadily growing economy, stable prices and competitive markets ought to have brought substantial gains in the past decade.
In the short run it would probably be a bit of a tonic for bank stock prices and equity markets, but it doesn't do anything to solve the problem of the euro crisis at all.
They are likely to include a bit more scope for private initiative and for markets and prices, but all within an economy and society still dominated by the state.
Cost pressures are increasing, thanks to higher commodity prices and tighter labour markets (American unemployment is at a six-year low).
Honda's engineering obsessions have the Japanese company better prepared than perhaps any other automaker for high oil prices and roiled energy markets.
Meanwhile, the low and middle segments of the market should grow at least 50% over the next 2-3 years, he says, as smartphone prices decline and emerging markets adopt these devices.
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Not every Chinese citizen is in the position to export cash, so the next best tactic for the nervous is to buy gold, a refuge from plunging property prices and declining stock markets as well as an anticipated depreciation of their currency.
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Investors are dumping the currency because the Canadian economy is widely perceived as commodity-based and export-oriented at a time when commodity prices are depressed and export markets are sluggish.
Amid thin trading and illiquid markets, prices for gasoline and heating oil are already on the rise and are expected to move higher.
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By the fall, Archipelago aims to become a full-fledged, all-bits exchange where the time-honored trading floor, with hundreds of humans gesturing furiously and making markets and shaping prices, will be a relic.
If Honda decides to remain competitive and protect its market share by leaving prices in international markets unchanged, then its sales will suffer and cutting prices will also lead to lower margins making it difficult on the car maker.
Over just a decade, the U.S. and global financial systems have been rocked and roiled by mondo-bubbles in tech stocks, house prices, Asian and Latin American markets and commodities.
This fund will be actively managed and its shares will be listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. and other secondary markets and trade at prices that change throughout the day.
Thanks to fears about war with Iraq, prices are high and the markets are anxious.
Why now when crude prices are slipping and the markets are pummeling oil giants?
Some of the reasons for Asia's dominance are obvious: cheap labour feeds into low prices, and huge local markets allow economies of scale.
Halliburton also continued to maintain a positive outlook for exploration activity in North America despite the recent declines in oil prices and turbulence in international markets.
Now that home prices are falling and credit markets are tightening, the 2 million borrowers whose mortgage payments are expected to soon rise are in trouble.
The lesson to private creditors from Germany, the IMF and others at the negotiating table last night would seem to be that things are getting back to normal, and that normality cannot just mean that stock markets and bond prices continue to go up.
Elsewhere, miners and oil firms weighed on markets as oil prices tumbled and most metals prices were off.
Precious metals rebounded from moderately lower levels in earlier trading as bargain hunters stepped in to buy the dips in gold and silver prices, and as short covering entered the markets.
Many other positive feedbacks such as the wealth effect, relative valuation methods, and the increased ability to borrow against inflated asset prices operate in financial bubbles and bull markets.
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It will increase purchases of financial instruments linked to the stock and property markets to lift the prices in those sectors and encourage other investors to buy them.
The commodities firms got a guaranteed middleman position that made them a lot of money, and set them up to move the markets and increase the prices paid for commodities from wheat to oil, writes Taibbi.
As the crisis spread, most of Southeast Asia and Japan saw slumping currencies, devalued stock markets and other asset prices, and a precipitous rise in private debt.
Local products and services are actually falling in price as he eases off his buying habits, but prices that depend on global markets and energy are going up rapidly.
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