Most people forget that the SPR was not established in order to stabilize prices during supply disruptions.
While these revisions might lower high-end prices, they could stabilize prices for lower-priced homes.
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Under its mandate, the Fed must stabilize prices by controlling inflation and maximize employment.
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Markets were marginally hopefully on Friday that the ECB would act as a back stop to buy Italian bonds to stabilize prices.
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But as OPEC's failed efforts to keep oil prices high have proved, production cuts can stabilize prices only if all suppliers stick to agreed reductions.
In other energy news, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that shrinking supplies of U.S. natural gas mean the nation must build more gas import terminals to create a "safety valve" that will help stabilize prices.
Relieving zoning restrictions does wonders for growth, which can then foster jobs, stabilize housing prices and combat sprawl.
But government should not try to artificially stabilize housing prices and risk another bubble, another burst, and further years of pain.
That will help stabilize home prices in communities like this one.
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European nations might make to this effort to stabilize oil prices.
Limiting speculation would stabilize commodity prices and prevent violent price spikes.
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While the PC market remains weak, we think an increase in demand for mobile DRAM products and a reduction in excess capacity in the market would stabilize selling prices in the future.
And hopefully we'll continue to take steps to stabilize home prices and start to fill up some of the several million homes that are currently vacant as a result of our economic downturn.
"With a proper real-estate focused stimulus measure, home sales could rise more than expected, by more than 10.0%, to 5.5 million in 2009, and easily begin to stabilize home prices in many parts of the country, " Yun said.
Even this highly unlikely shortfall could be covered by the five mbd represented by the combined release of U.S., Japanese, and German stocks not to mention the contribution Britain, France, Italy and other European nations might make to this effort to stabilize oil prices.
But if things work well and housing prices stabilize and, over time, our economy does better, the shareholders have the hope of having their share prices appreciate.
King notes that if successful, QT could help commodity prices stabilize, and maybe even fall.
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Critics charge that letting housing prices stabilize on their own is healthy for the economy.
As housing prices stabilize and begin to move positively, this will provide a two-fold benefit to the economy.
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So instead of prices collapsing during the next year or so, we are more likely to see prices stabilize and recover.
Treasury Secretary HENRY PAULSON (United States): The cost will be determined by how quickly the economy recovers and how quickly housing prices stabilize.
We believe a shift from PCs to alternate growth segments will help drive demand as well as stabilize declining DRAM prices in the future.
If housing prices stabilize, then that forecast could prove shy.
As households downsize, home prices stabilize then recover, developed economies improve, jobs grow again and incomes start rising is it possilble that customers will want something beyond low price?
Some commodity chip makers will reestablish profitability before that time (and companies with highly differentiated products are profitable today) but once prices stabilize in the middle of 2013 all players should see their earnings move into positive territory until the next cyclical downturn begins in 2015.
There would be plenty of other losers too, from the nations that depend on a steady flow of Middle East oil to stabilize global energy prices to the shippers that count on the Fifth Fleet for protection to the local companies that help sustain U.S. forces in the region.
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However, we also expect PC prices to stabilize after 20 years of an 8% annual decline.
When those components are made locally, prices should stabilize if not come down to earth.
He expects prices to stabilize over the long term as the world's ample uranium supply comes on line.
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