Dixon contends that by forcing prices down with Dannon, it puts margin pressure on all brands, which could eventually hurt Coke because it isn't the lowest-cost producer.

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There could be a vicious cycle, as defaults and foreclosures dump houses on already saturated markets, forcing prices down further and leaving more overstretched homeowners with negative equity.

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In fact it had got so bad in some place that they were forcing down house prices.

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The wider use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has unleashed a vast supply of natural gas from the shale-rock formations across the U.S., forcing down domestic prices, cutting the need for overseas imports and making gas-exporting nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean a less important piece in the U.S. energy puzzle.

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The basic argument offered was that unregulated short-selling caused the crisis thanks to short-selling "bandits" allegedly forcing down the share prices of companies, regardless of their underlying financial health.

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Stubbornly high real estate prices have been a significant source of public complaint in recent years, forcing the government to implement a string of policies to keep prices down.

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The resulting competition is driving prices down for core MDM products, and, like a balloon being squeezed, is forcing the vendors in this market to offer additional capabilities to differentiate.

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