In this case prices will fall, even when money supply increases.
Their businesses need to have a competitive advantage and the power to raise prices for their goods or services in case inflation hits, or maintain their prices in case of deflation, and they need to be noncyclical businesses.
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The CML warned that lenders needed not only to reflect their own higher borrowing costs, but to protect themselves in case house prices fell further.
These instruments are called 'derivatives' because they derive from an underlying financial asset - in this case, share prices.
It turns out that in every case, home prices rose over the period in which mortgage interest rates are rising.
Thus if you are going to make the case that the government should smooth policy based fluctuations in prices, then you should make the general case that the government should use subsidies to smooth other prices for businesses.
In the case of platinum, prices have fallen back to the cost of production for many mines.
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On Monday, we explored a worst-case hypothetical: oil prices spiking in the event of a Saudi supply disruption.
Alternatively, it could mean that they fear the inflationary impact of new Fed rate cuts, but if that were the case, Treasury bond prices should have fallen.
Housing, too, is still soft in the US. The latest Case-Shiller numbers show prices sinking nationwide.
As has been the case all year, loan prices tracked stock prices on a slightly delayed basis.
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The reverse should be the case, since plummeting share prices suggest companies are more likely to become insolvent.
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But as is the case with politics, all prices are local, and a national average isn't much use to see who's really getting hurt.
No one knew where to mark the line on inflation, causing companies to keep prices high in case their underestimated their own inflation targets.
Separate data released on Tuesday showed that the closely-watched Case Shiller index of home prices in 20 major US cities were 6.8% higher in the three months to December 2012 than they had been a year earlier.
In the 6 percent inflation case, although tradable goods prices, like soybeans and corn, are projected to rise to the 4.5 percent inflation target set by the Central Bank, non-tradable prices like services will go as high as 9 percent and pull the IPCA higher as a result.
As this last Case-Shiller report showed, prices fell on a monthly basis, and they have barely managed to return to 2003 levels.
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Unlike the antidumping and countervailing duty laws, a Section 421 case does not include allegations of prices at less than fair value or prices that benefit from countervailable government subsidies.
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And if the market price history of the past 11 years repeats itself, which technical odds suggest will be the case, this dip in gold prices will eventually prove to be a bargain-hunting buying opportunity.
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The fight over gasoline prices is fast becoming a case study in the triumph of politics over policy.
Home prices, according to the Case-Shiller indexes, are still about 30% below their pre-crisis levels across the country.
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In either case, the consensus is that asset prices have further to go.
Buenos Aires is a case of dollar appreciation plus very reasonable prices.
Such is likely the case in Salisbury, Md. where prices have fallen 6% and are projected to fall an additional percentage point next year as the market stabilizes along its bottom.
Although the last reading of Case-Shiller's gauge of prices for 20 cities was flat against a month earlier and down 2.6% year over year, it may be missing a robust turn in housing.
If that's the case, the recent downward trend in housing prices is likely causing some economic unease among Americans.
In any case, because consumers are anxious about rising prices, a cut in interest rates might not boost confidence.
That does not seem to be the case, despite the fact that natural gas prices have been plummeting due to a glut of supply.
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That was certainly the case in the euro zone, where headline prices went up by an estimated 2.5% in May, compared with 1.6% in February.
And while home prices, as measured by the Case-Shiller index, have risen for the last eight months, they are still nearly 30% off their mid-2006 peak.
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