Banks still have a vast inventory of foreclosed homes going through the pipelines, which will depress prices even further.
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Combined with slumping demand, the rebound in supply may continue to depress prices.
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Some top artists have inventories of unsold work, and Chinese collectors frequently have hundreds of paintings, both representing potential new supply that can depress prices.
If its production keeps rising, Iraq may depress prices further.
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.
Central banks from China to Canada are holding far less of their foreign reserves in gold bullion these days, which means they have less to sell into the market and thereby depress prices.
Thus so long as China's wages and the prices of its goods remain well below those in rich countries (see right-hand chart, above), its increasing penetration of world markets will continue to depress prices for many years.
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Even as weak commodity prices depress export prices, sluggish demand growth in the rich world may limit emerging economies' export volumes.
Moreover, the strong dollar a factor that has helped depress import prices need not be a permanent phenomenon.
In the long run, the threat of this eventual sale will depress share prices.
Now, he said, the foreclosure process is accelerating as well, and distress sales often depress housing prices.
Meanwhile, the cost of pension top-ups will eat into companies' earnings and thus depress share prices further.
That, in turn, will depress share prices, which will make it harder to achieve adequate investment returns.
Will built-in electronics and community services actually depress the prices of the home by restricting the customer base?
Renewables can depress wholesale prices, eg, when the sun creates a midday jolt.
That is because higher interest rates are likely further to depress house prices, which had risen to giddy heights before suffering a reverse this year.
On the other hand, the Obama administration currently plans to raise dividend and capital gains taxes, which will depress stock prices, making for a negative wealth effect.
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Likewise, slower growth in Asia should depress commodity prices.
Many people believe this will depress stock prices.
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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).
If prices depress low enough where there is significantly less drilling for oil, gas supplies will take a big hit and prices would then rise.
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Wall Street analysts don't think that the decreased float will depress Internet stock prices.
Motor fuel also accounts for a larger share of Americans' spending, so falling prices will depress inflation by more.
Yet gasoline prices could depress spending as the year goes on.
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And if asset managers turn en masse to bonds with long maturities to match their assets and liabilities more precisely, which is necessary especially for older plans, that will raise bond prices, depress bond yields and increase the present value of assets they must hold again, widening the pensions gap.
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.
Callow predicts an OPEC cut could result in higher prices at the pumps, which could depress already weak consumer confidence.
Gasoline prices could spike high enough this summer to significantly rattle consumer confidence and further depress an already sluggish U.S. home sales market.
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