The real cost of health care is falling and will fall faster as these technologies continue to improve.
Much of the fall stemmed from falling demand in Japan and other Asian countries.
"Our income is falling and will continue to fall in the coming years and every single member of staff must take what responsibility they can for ensuring that we spend less, " he said.
As falling confidence causes bond prices to fall, interest rates become exorbitant and destroy equity valuations.
He had the sensation of a great type of hole or emptiness falling through him and continuing to fall and never hitting the floor.
Conversely, in a falling market, the shorts should fall faster than the market and the long decline less than the market, again providing profits within the hedge.
Andrew is falling into the trap so many pundits fall into: that simple solutions exist and if we just hold people accountable the system will fix itself.
Results from fixed income and equity trading are seen falling 19% while investment banking profits will fall 20%, they said.
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These allegations, compounded by falling natural gas prices caused the stock to fall by over 50% during the first half of 2012.
Prices, which were stable from April 2009 to June 2011, are falling significantly for some devices, although the fall is not yet impacting all products.
Food prices had been falling but even then, the global price fall did not translate into a comparable decline on local markets in most poor countries, so the poor did not benefit much.
Long-term interest rates have also been falling sharply of late, and may have further to fall.
However, the majority of surveyors are still reporting falling house prices, with prices expected to continue to fall in the months ahead.
Industrial production, which fell by 14.5% in September on the previous year, is falling a touch less dramatically: October figures show a fall of 11.1% on 1997.
For the UK, you'll remember the likely fall in inflation (helped by stable or falling oil prices) was one of my biggest "reasons to be cheerful" in 2012.
Computer-maker Dell has seen its quarterly profit fall by 47% after it was hit by falling sales to both consumers and large companies.
He said inflation - which has increased this week to 2.8% raising the prospect of an increase in interest rates - would fall to 2% next year and carry on falling.
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If it does nothing, the Fed runs the risk that, when Wall Street does eventually fall, inflation will be rising and the dollar falling, making it harder to ease monetary policy to offset the effects of a crash.
God knows human beings are made for falling, and most human beings in that town were going to fall sooner rather than later.
We'll have to invest right across the board in educational opportunity so that we do not fall behind China, or India, as well as falling behind the rest of Europe.
However, should the European economy fall apart, Japan will face a double whammy: falling exports due to recession among its trading partners, plus a rising yen which will further depress exports.
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If markets keep falling, the value of other investment bankers' share options will also fall.
On top of the economic distress this causes families struggling to make ends meet on falling real incomes, there is the wider economic consequence: when incomes fall and borrowing is no longer an option, people curb their spending - and with consumer spending accounting for almost 70% of our GDP, when people cut spending the economy stops growing.
Have you ever been on track to a financial goal but then found yourself falling back into bad habits like spending too much or over-reacting to a fall in the stock market?
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The U.S. National Home Price Index declined 3.9% through the quarter and was down 4.1% from December 2009, marking the second lowest annual growth rate since the third quarter of 2009, when prices were falling at an annual rate of 8.6% amidst a market in free fall.
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The euro rose in value, around the time the rate decision was announced, only to fall through the floor later on during the ECB President's press conference, falling 0.7% against the dollar in not very much time at all.
In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.
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There were warning signs: in the fall of 1987 the dollar was weak, interest rates were relatively high and stocks had been falling for weeks.
If prices fall, this process goes viciously into reverse, and a credit crunch can amplify the impact of falling prices.
Wage stickiness could stop inflation falling much below 2%, and could justify the expectation of many economists that short-term interest rates will fall no lower than 2.75%.
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