The rich payday for Varian holders almost certainly will lead to speculation about the possibility of other deals and trigger higher stock prices for other small- and mid-tier players in the semi equipment sector.
Investec Securities said, however, that, while lower prices could trigger stronger physical demand from jewelry markets, this market is likely to pick up only around June or July as seasonal restocking takes place, driven initially from India.
Analysts caution that a sharp rise in prices would likely trigger a return of strict controls by the government.
Meanwhile, BoJ officials have long expressed fears that aiming for significantly higher levels of inflation could trigger a bubble in asset prices -- or worse, a collapse in the currency.
Rents directly or indirectly account for 29% of America's consumer-price index, so rising inflation would force the Fed to raise interest rates more swiftly, which could trigger a fall in house prices.
Where Jango, or its equivalents, work, comparison shopping will become so easy that it will no doubt trigger a price war, driving prices down to commodity levels.
Nobody is yet suggesting America is suffering from deflation, which can trigger a downward spiral of falling prices, shrinking demand and financial distress: a vicious circle America last experienced in the 1930s depression.
Fabricated metal products will have a small boost from a drop in primary metals prices that cheap energy costs will trigger.
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Though this sort of overheating would normally trigger inflation, it's plausible that prices were held in check by a combination of cheap Chinese goods and cheap labor from East European immigrants.
When downward price movements can themselves trigger the need to unwind investments, further depressing prices, they soon become self-reinforcing.
If an unsustainable rise in asset prices goes into sharp reverse, this can trigger financial instability.
If China's prices start to rise, then its export prices start to rise, and that might trigger global inflation.
Most analysts agree the latest steps could trigger an immediate cooling of sales and some stabilization of prices, but hold differing views on how serious and prolonged the impact might be, given liquidity remains abundant amid low global interest rates.
But others say a trigger could be as simple as a wave of sellers, long holding out for their asking prices, suddenly capitulating.
The lagged effect of higher oil prices and yen strength will further reduce the Japanese current-account surplus and ultimately trigger a violent dollar rally against the yen.
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