If commodity prices decline, then China and India will be faced with less imported inflation.
Fixed-income investments will almost certainly lose money once rates begin to rise again and bond prices decline.
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That means only 21 acquiring companies, less than half, saw their share prices decline on the deal announcement.
When Uncle Sam stops buying, interest rates should rise and bond prices decline.
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This may seem an odd topic, as we watch basic commodity prices decline.
So as housing prices decline, people have less money to draw on for everything from medical bills to college tuition.
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Inventory hurts not just because it has to be financed, but because it erodes in value as component prices decline.
Price wars have been escalating across the investment world and that means consumers benefit from these competitive dynamics as prices decline.
Worse still, because of the lags, supply will for a period continue to increase even as prices decline, pushing them lower.
China could also play a role as a big buyer of oil, to stock up supply for future use as prices decline.
You get positive elasticity, which means that revenues rise when prices decline.
While both companies saw their share prices decline following the news, long term investors should be happy as both offerings were accretive to NAV.
In the event that gas prices decline, Internet retailers are hoping techniques instilled to lure consumers to the website will result in loyal shopping patterns.
If average house prices decline nationally, consumer spending would slow sharply.
In the medium-term if global growth stalls and oil prices decline due to reduced industrial demand, this will likely help truck sales at the expense of car sales.
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"Housing market activity revives when house prices decline sufficiently to restore housing affordability and entice buyers to step up and make a purchase, " says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com.
Meanwhile, the low and middle segments of the market should grow at least 50% over the next 2-3 years, he says, as smartphone prices decline and emerging markets adopt these devices.
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Could oil prices decline sharply at some future date?
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As rates rise, their prices decline.
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Thus far we have been seeing deteriorating economic conditions for the consumer as evidenced by the over 9.1 % unemployment rate, manufacturing, GDP and most recently, the revelation by Robert Schiller (housing market guru), who said that he would not be shocked if he sees home prices decline another 10-25%.
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When equity prices decline steadily as they have been these last few days, margin accounts get restricted and in the worst case, if cash or stock is not deposited to meet margin requirements, sales can be forced by the brokers to pay for margin debt used to buy the stock.
Current futures markets suggest that house prices will decline by 12%-18% in the next 18 months.
The quake initially caused oil prices to decline, and that sent stock markets on an upward trend.
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Oil and gas refining will grow in unit volume, though product prices will decline in this energy boom.
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The only benefit to the slowing economy for the big emerging markets of Asia is that commodity prices will decline.
The banks, all the big banks anyway, carry their mortgage books with an assumption that home prices would decline peak-to-trough 30%, 31%.
However, it forecast prices to decline by low double digit next quarter.
Prices will decline more in the city's fringe areas but not so much in the centers of first- and second-tier cities, he added.
We forecast DRAM prices to decline at an average rate of 25% during our review period, compared to 30% average decline as per our previous estimate.
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