We've got people's wages that are flat, prices that are rising and living standards that are falling.
Many of them may see flat gold prices in dollar terms, but would be buyers of gold in euro terms as the outlook for gold as valued in that currency is stronger.
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To Mill, were he alive today he would not view the collapse in flat screen television prices as deflation.
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McShane notes that flat panel TV prices fell 21.1% on a year-over-year basis in July, worse than the 14.8% drop in June and a 13.6% decline in May.
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Granted, Sony has been known to bicker over the plummeting flat-panel prices, but could be looking for a way to effectively (and profitably) add to those record setting sales even more.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that even the German market is starting to wake up after more than a decade of flat or falling prices, but this has yet to show up the index that we use, which is published with a long lag (there are no figures for 2006).
Surveyors expect house prices to remain flat next year, with only a modest rise in the number of transactions in Scotland, and rental prices rising.
The only thing that might be not so good for gold is if prices went flat.
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With home prices now flat or falling, though, more borrowers are defaulting on their mortgages.
Once prices are flat or falling, the annual pay rise may become a thing of the past.
Those in northern England and Wales rose by only 3% or so, and Scottish prices were flat.
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In the rest of the central region, prices were flat after falling 0.6% in the previous three months.
This month headline inflation stayed flat, while core prices rose a paltry 0.1%.
In U.S. economic news, consumer prices were flat in June, in line with expectations, as energy costs continued to fall.
Yet with property in many places looking so overvalued, that could imply a long period of falling real prices even if nominal prices stay flat.
After rising for a while, flat-panel monitor prices are plummeting again.
San Jose house prices are flat this year.
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If the current price right now is looked at as the new normal, which I think it is for numerous reasons, then the oil stocks-despite oil prices going flat-the oil stocks, I think, will go straight up soon.
Alternatively, if rents continue to rise at their current annual pace of 2.5%, house prices would need to remain flat for over ten years to bring America's ratio of house prices to rents back to its long-term norm.
This suggests the market (for now) expects cocoa prices to be flat in both the first and second half of 2010.
And Japanese prices have been flat or falling for most of the period, so real bond yields have still been positive.
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Mr. Ng added that China's property market is expected to bottom in April or May, after which sales would recover, but prices may remain flat.
The daily chart of Apple Inc. ( AAPL) shows a potential bottom formation, line a, as prices have been flat over the past few days.
The problem is that the middle class, long before the recession hit, was seeing itself squeezed -- incomes flat or near flat and a lot of prices rising.
Global oil demand was flat during that period, but prices plunged by about 75 percent.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will remain essentially flat, declined 2.3 percentage points to 20.3%.
Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially flat, fell 1.6 percentage points to 19.0%.
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Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will remain essentially flat, rose 0.3 percentage points to 24.9%.
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