Reports Thursday said physical demand for gold in India is increasing due to the recent sharp fall in prices prompting some bargain hunting from consumers.
In a statement, BP said its cost-cutting should be seen in the context of the sharp fall in oil prices in 2008, which squeezed all oil companies' profits.
After all, producer prices were kept in check by a sharp fall in car prices a reflection of heavy discounting, which may be temporary.
When the Fed begins to unwind the huge portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage backed securities, there will likely be a sharp discontinuous increase in interest rates resulting in a sharp fall in bond prices especially high yield bonds.
But nevertheless we've seen a continued sharp fall in equity prices all over the world.
And lenders have as much to lose as individual homeowners from a sharp fall in house prices.
Likewise, a sharp fall in asset prices might push an economy into recession.
Does the sharp fall in commodity prices on May 5th make any of these stories more plausible than the others?
The slowdown, driven by a sharp fall in energy prices, means inflation in the eurozone is now at its lowest level since February 2010.
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The sharp fall in commodity prices earlier this month, which followed some weaker-than-expected economic data, was a sign that the end-game was under way.
Nor is there much sign of another common cause of bearishness, war: most recently, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait coincided with the sharp fall in share prices in 1990.
The system was also implicated in a payment crisis which hit the Calcutta stock exchange in March, when a sharp fall in stock prices left a group of brokers with big carry forward positions unable to honour their financial commitments.
The immediate cause of the sharp fall in bond prices seems to have been rooted in the byzantine world of Italian politics, and in particular, an acrimonious spat between Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, and Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, over provisions in an emergency budget.
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Moreover, the yuan has become more competitive thanks to a sharp fall in inflation: prices, which three years ago were rising by 27% a year, are falling today.
Despite the sharp fall in natural gas prices in the U.S. caused by rising production from shale and other unconventional rock formations there was a time when early investors in shale gas made fat profits, a process which is being mirrored in Australia.
Governments cannot use the exchange rate to help the economy adjust to outside shocks, such as a fall in export prices or sharp shifts in capital flows.
That coincided with a sharp fall in the price of carbon allowances under the EU's flagship emissions trading system and rising European prices for natural gas.
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