Tom Pawlicki, precious metals analyst at MFGlobal, said precious metals are expected to keep the mixed-to-lower price trend in the near-term as investors appetite for risk improved.
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Gold market bulls need to keep in mind that the more important longer-term price trend in the gold market remains up, as has been the case since 2001.
The near-term price trend in crude oil futures remains up.
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And now Target has implemented a policy of price-matching Amazon for all of 2013 in hopes of slowing the trend to on-line purchasing.
Some retailers have attempted to counter this trend by rolling out price-matching guarantees.
High open interest is a sign of liquidity and growing open interest during a price trend can sometimes give a clue if the trend is sustainable in the short-term.
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Sortzi has seen a trend toward more fixed-price contracts, or those under which tasks are performed for a predetermined price.
Is the price action confirming what I perceive the macro-trend to be?
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If the fashion and price is trend right, we have a win-win scenario.
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But, the battle at that price area will have important ramifications to the longer-term trend.
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Today's customers will also hate the trend towards price discrimination on and through internet-associated technology, even if some of them enjoy lower prices and are better off as a result.
Other studies have found that to some extent it is possible to predict future house-price movements from information available now, namely past price increases and the deviation of prices from their long-run trend.
Yet Priceline.com , best known as the name-your-own-price booking company with the goofy William Shatner ads, is defying the trend.
Since Steve Ballmer took over from Bill Gates as chief executive in 2000, Microsoft's share price has languished and the company has lost its reputation as a tech trend-setter.
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Add in all the other cost-inflating provisions of the healthcare law and the long-standing trend of increasing health insurance premiums and the price of a family health insurance policy is expected to double over the next decade.
However, there have been several upward spikes in the retail price over the past two decades that have bucked but not broken a long-term falling trend.
The 12-month EPS chart below indicates that the stock price has now started to correlate with the increasing trend in estimates.
Growth in low-price segments and international markets has offset weakness in the corporate sector, but he thinks this trend will stall driving results well below consensus expectations.
The gold market bulls can take solace in the fact that no longer-term chart damage has occurred, and from a longer-term perspective, the recent sell off is just one more downside correction in a price trend that remains solidly up.
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Despite the damage to the near-term trend, gold bulls can take heart that the two-day sell-off only brings the price down to where it was a week ago.
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