If prices fall further, they may finally have the chance to set up home.
And if the depressed prices continue for more than a year or prices fall further, even companies that are thought be safely capitalised will begin to be stretched.
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Inflation should come down too, as energy prices fall further.
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When investors realise that future profits growth will be lower, share prices may fall further.
He has bet that gold prices will fall further in coming months as more investors shed gold.
The high level of pessimism shows that individual investors remain worried that stock prices could fall further.
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The latest survey by RICS showed that many surveyors expected prices to fall further in the next three months.
And judging by the price of futures contracts based on the Case-Shiller composite index, investors expect house prices to fall further.
Deflation is bad for an economy as it tends to make consumers and businesses delay major purchases in the expectation that prices will fall further in the future.
Even if you think stock prices can fall further, you should at least create a list of stocks that either look attractive or would be attractive if their prices fell further.
The issues for many considering taking a home loan are whether they will still have a job in a few months time and if house prices might fall further, making a loan cheaper, he adds.
And if share prices do fall further, or if demand in America slows abruptly for some other reason, effective remedial action is still possible: the Fed could cut interest rates (as it did, too much so as it turned out, after the stockmarket crash of 1987) or Congress could cut taxes.
After the harvest, prices will surely fall further.
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The glut of unsold homes is still there, indicating home prices have further to fall.
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House prices are likely to fall further in the next year or so, under the weight of gigantic excess inventories.
And since firms in competitive markets find it harder to raise prices, unemployment can fall further before inflation picks up.
In the past few weeks, housing markets on both sides of the Atlantic have seen signs of life, but there is every chance that prices have further to fall before they finally reach their low.
But each credit tightening causes a further fall in prices, which causes even more defaults, which causes a further credit tightening.
But the market is the market, and prices are likely to fall much further.
Oil and gas prices have plunged and could fall further still if the economy comes crashing to a halt.
"Housing prices are unlikely to fall much further, " she said, when asked if now is a good time to buy.
But lack of detail in the plan triggered a further fall in prices on the day of the announcement.
The number of Netizens, in America and elsewhere, is set to rocket still further as PC prices fall and peer pressure to get online rises.
That weaker economy comes with the backdrop of land and property prices that likely have much further to fall, which heralds pain for Spanish banks.
Assessing how much further house prices are likely to fall gets even trickier.
He expects a second round of price declines: a further 20% fall would bring prices back to their long-run average against earnings.
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