LONDON, England (CNN) -- OPEC's deliberations to cut oil output in March could depress fragile world economies, commentators said.
Likewise, slower growth in Asia should depress commodity prices.
That, in turn, will depress share prices, which will make it harder to achieve adequate investment returns.
Barry Chiswick of the University of Illinois at Chicago says high-tech foreign workers can depress wages in some industries.
And it was "inconceivable" that he could agree to a policy which would further depress incomes in his already low-wage constituency.
Continued productivity improvement will be needed to compete globally, but these will depress employment in manufacturing further as they did in agriculture during the prior century.
It has taken on added importance recently because of fears that the decline in home prices will spill over and depress consumer spending, leading to major pressure on growth in the United States and countries that rely on American consumers to buy their exports.
Combined with slumping demand, the rebound in supply may continue to depress prices.
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This would directly depress future increases in private sector pensions.
The report cited the previously disclosed decision of Marathon Ashland to withhold some of its cleaner burning gasoline from the market "so as not to depress prices" in the spring of 2000.
Will built-in electronics and community services actually depress the prices of the home by restricting the customer base?
It could hamper service quality today and depress the rate of innovation in coming years.
Moreover, the moves to boost exports have helped depress consumption, which is in fact beginning to slow.
In a vicious circle, high rates depress investment, add to the government's borrowing costs (which total some 5% of GDP) and thus its fiscal deficit (of over 2% of GDP).
Worse, to use the tax code to stimulate one sector of the commercial world, authorities must depress other sectors--in this case by saddling individuals and large firms with higher tax bills in order to favor the small.
Another factor may be the impact of density, which, Cox demonstrates, tends to depress fertility rates not only here in the United States, but through much of the world.
One optimistic note for the near term, though: Tax selling, which tends to depress stock prices, will end in December and thus lay the groundwork for a January effect (when investors gobble up the marked-down stocks, leading to a mini-rally).
Callow predicts an OPEC cut could result in higher prices at the pumps, which could depress already weak consumer confidence.
Even as weak commodity prices depress export prices, sluggish demand growth in the rich world may limit emerging economies' export volumes.
In the worst case, rising debts and defaults depress growth, poisoning the economy by deepening deflation and pressing real interest rates higher.
On the other hand, when people and businesses lose confidence, they act in ways that worsen the economic downturn and further depress confidence.
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Every time it looks as if the government might push for British entry, the pound weakens, with currency traders reckoning that a decision to go in would prompt the government actively to try to depress the pound's value ahead of entry.
As the data comes with a natural lag, we could still be in for a slew of negative numbers that could further depress investor confidence.
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In seasonal work and construction, cheap foreign labour can depress wages and make it harder for the low-skilled to find work, but the flexibility and willingness of new workers can also boost productivity and encourage innovation.
We all know, intuitively, that higher tax rates depress economic activity, which reduces somewhat the increase in tax revenue expected from the higher rates.
Private pensions are different, but some economists think a smaller working population will tend to depress the value of financial assets and that will in turn affect pensions.
In the long run, the threat of this eventual sale will depress share prices.
As I noted in my Fogarty Lecture at Stanford, this standard alone will greatly depress new innovation.
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This can depress economic activity, as consumers hold off buying goods in the expectation they will become cheaper in coming months.
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In the 1980s, the owners were found to have colluded to depress the market for free agents and to make quiet agreements to stop going after the top players from other teams.
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