Loans for first-time buyers were on a downward path well before the crisis, because of high house prices.
Darin Newsom, DTN senior analyst noted the downward path is picking up speed.
Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
Still, he said, any gains in the yen are likely to be temporary and the currency should soon resume its downward path.
And a critical component of that is getting our fiscal house in order, reducing spending, and getting the deficit on a significant downward path.
"In order to bring debt ratios back on a downward path, euro-area countries should not unravel their efforts to reduce government budget deficits, " he said.
The yield on 10-year Treasury notes has been on downward path over 2011, falling from near 3.75% in February to a low at 1.72% in September.
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In the U.S., gold jewelry continued its long term downward path with fourth quarter demand down 9 percent to 42.7 tons while full-year demand fell by 11 percent to 115.1 tons.
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Hard drive shipments have been on a downward path as flash drives and tablets eat into their market, according to a report by iSuppli cited by Bloomberg, and will fall by about 4% on a sequential basis in the first quarter of 2011.
Our potential growth rate will be even slower, unemployment will be higher, and the structural hole in the public finances will be even larger, requiring the government to impose even greater tax rises and spending cuts to bring the national debt onto a downward path.
In Japan, as elsewhere, the downward trend in bond yields has been punctuated by savage though short-lived sell-offs (indeed, the path of bond yields in Japan since 1990 and America since 2000 looks eerily similar).
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