Much of the fall stemmed from falling demand in Japan and other Asian countries.
The real cost of health care is falling and will fall faster as these technologies continue to improve.
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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Long-term interest rates have also been falling sharply of late, and may have further to fall.
He had the sensation of a great type of hole or emptiness falling through him and continuing to fall and never hitting the floor.
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.
If markets keep falling, the value of other investment bankers' share options will also fall.
"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.
However, the majority of surveyors are still reporting falling house prices, with prices expected to continue to fall in the months ahead.
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.
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.
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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These allegations, compounded by falling natural gas prices caused the stock to fall by over 50% during the first half of 2012.
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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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.
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%.
If prices fall, this process goes viciously into reverse, and a credit crunch can amplify the impact of falling prices.
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