Moreover, Investec adds, "increasing supply and rising stocks are likely to lead to prices falling".
Global markets reacted with oil prices falling and shares in Libya-exposed energy companies surging.
If the ECB is to fulfil its mandate of price stability, it must prevent prices falling.
To stop prices falling, controls were brought in, alongside other new and avowedly anti-business regulations.
With commodity prices falling fast, one hope for continued growth is oil and gas exploration.
And with share prices falling, cash-rich firms will then be in the strongest position to pursue their ambitions.
Lower interest rates may not stop house prices falling, nor will they prevent banks from tightening their lending standards.
Retail prices fell by 0.8% in 1998, and the government has even instituted controls to stop prices falling further.
Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking.
With prices falling due to digital distribution for movies, music, even books, is the same fate in store for games?
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Good news for new China home buyers, prices in 48 large to mid-sized cities saw home prices falling yet again.
With prices falling, even inert money in the bank or post office earned, in real terms, a small tax-free return.
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Once a patent expires, other companies can produce copies of the treatments, a move that usually leads to prices falling.
With oil prices falling, there may be less urgency with regard to the conversion of old truck engines into fuel-efficient models.
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With bond prices falling and rates surging, banks will be left with depreciating assets (Treasuries) and stuck with low yielding long-term loans.
Meanwhile, more hawkish members of OPEC, such as Venezuela, are calling for a cut in output to stop oil prices falling further.
Since their currencies are now irrevocably fixed, this gap can only be narrowed by prices falling in France or rising in Spain.
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Indeed, bond yields have been rising (bond prices falling) since the Fed first began talking in early September of providing the monetary stimulus.
For instance, the rate of deflation in capital goods has deepened, with prices falling by 6.9% in the year to the second quarter.
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"We faced very challenging market conditions compared to the same time last year, with steel prices falling significantly, " the chief executive said in a statement.
If this does not stop America's share prices falling, what will?
Gero said with crude oil prices falling there is less concern about inflation which gives the Fed some room not to raise rates for a while.
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The HD DVD player arena has truly been a whirlwind of late, with prices falling left and right and new entrants showing up fashionably late.
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With gold prices falling since the beginning of 2011 and the prospects of an economic recovery gaining traction, many have doubted whether the incredible rally in gold prices is sustainable.
According to the GDP deflator, a broad index of prices, deflation tightened its grip on the economy in the fourth quarter, with prices falling at an annual rate of 4.4% (see chart).
By contrast, Florida metros Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach saw slower price drops than expected in Q2, with prices falling 5%, less than half as much as they did the previous quarter.
But both share prices falling means that the markets thought that this particular deal was wealth enhancing, the News International price falling (at least in part) because that value will now not be created.
Given that U.S. housing prices peaked at the end of 2005, this means that the bottom won't come before the end of 2010, with real housing prices falling perhaps another 8%-10% from current levels.
The measures, which include a restriction in some cities on the number of homes an individual can own and higher down-payments for property purchases, have resulted in property prices falling in most Chinese cities.
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