Hence, with no change in the current demand for oil, the expectation of a greater future demand and a higher future price caused the current price to rise.

因此，在当前石油需求状况没有变化的情况下，对未来需求增长以及油价上涨的预期导致了当前油价走高。

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Rice buyers immediately started buying up available stocks, hoarding whatever rice they could get in the expectation of future price increases, and bidding up the price for future crops.

大米采购者们立即开始囤积库存, 来缓冲未来他们所需种类大米价格的上涨预期, 并标起大米期货价格.

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"The fact that retail sales come in weaker than expected does not change the future expectation that this recession is actually drawing to a close," Achuthan said.

零售销售比预期的更为疲软的事实并不能改变衰退实际上已经接近尾声的预期。

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Investors would likely tolerate very low dividend-price ratios, in expectation of future growth of GDP, and so governments could probably refinance their debt at much better rates today.

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If the Fed had a standing, credible commitment to keeping nominal incomes growing at 5.5 percent in 2008-2010, speculators would have effectively helped the Fed achieve its goal by buying up assets before they fell too far, in expectation that future Fed intervention would cause those asset values to rise again.

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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.

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