It seems that most retail investors simply believe that shares are the best long-term investment around, and a fall in prices merely a good moment to find bargains.
The gold and silver bulls have had a good week as prices late this week have hit four-week highs and both markets have gained near-term technical strength.
May silver futures prices closed nearer the session high Wednesday and made a very good recovery from the session low that saw prices hit a fresh four-week low.
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But whenever you search for a good airfare, the prices are out of reach.
It's also a good idea to monitor prices for your favorite items for about a month at your local grocery store to get an idea of the lowest price at which it is offered.
"A good monsoon will also be deflationary, " Mr. Sabnavis said, noting that prices of food items depend not just on a good harvest, but also on farm input costs and whether the government increases assured prices of food staples.
The only way to know if it is actually a good deal is to compare prices.
If you think rapidly rising home prices is a good trend, you might want to think again.
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And the myth that buying a home is a good, safe investment since prices never fall has been absolutely shattered.
Even as the government dithers, a good harvest and reasonable oil prices have helped to keep the economy ticking over.
The table of the monthly spot gold performance from Bloomberg shows that April is typically a fairly good month for gold prices.
Sinopec's chief said the company "urgently" needs to acquire upstream capacity, and current low oil prices offered a good time to buy assets.
Some will doubtless point out (as this writer has many times) that falling prices are a good thing, and that they by definition materialize in advanced economies.
Other countries riding high today because of good prices for a single commodity, such as Botswana, which is doing well from diamonds, should stimulate new, competitive industries, such as tourism.
In the last few years, many companies have begun adopting energy saving technologies as a matter of good business in a world with high and volatile energy prices.
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These forces imply only that a narrower range of prices will prevail in the market for a particular good.
Oil prices are also a good indicator on investor sentiment regarding the world economy.
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The tendency of land prices to move independently of stock prices makes land a good diversification.
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Those airlines offer extremely cheap prices and are a good way to move around Europe.
Then there is high gas prices--a good excuse, it appears, back in the 1970s, as well as more recently.
But for other companies, shortages and rising prices can be a good thing.
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Rapidly falling gasoline inventories are a good predictor of sharply higher gasoline prices.
Technically, February Comex gold futures prices have made a good rebound from the late-December low and hit another fresh four-week high overnight.
That might be more attainable if they had less capital, and indeed their falling share prices have done a good job of reducing the problem.
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He said owners of older vehicles are bringing them in for service and doing the math on repairing their current vehicle versus trading it in for a good price since used-car prices are record high and driving away with a new vehicle that achieves far better fuel economy.
The Carli formula - which is used to generate nearly 30% of the RPI - has some strengths, but is not used by any other serious statistical body in the world because it tends systematically to overstate inflation, especially when prices for a certain good are highly variable.
While we understand the reasoning behind it, we believe that the decision to sell such a huge stake in ICBC at a time when stock prices across global markets are repressed may not be a very good one for Goldman in the long run.
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One last thing I would point out, keeping housing prices down is a positive good, in my book.
"From an environmental perspective, increasing oil prices might seem like a good thing, but it's not that simple, " Newell says.
Certainly, if your long position is too large to let you sleep at night, reducing it when prices are rising is a good idea.
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