There was a big decline in coffee prices.

Residential property prices in popular cities nationwide stabilized in November. In particular, prices stopped rising in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Going forward, the level of residential property prices in some cities will continue to decline.

In addition, growing competition in the distribution market can be expected to produce a decline in prices.

The export earnings from agricultural commodities and raw materials for least developed countries are falling as prices decline.

The most reliable index of comparable house prices has continued to decline month after month, and prices are now about 7 lower in real terms than a year ago, implying a 1 trillion loss of household wealth. With roughly 25 of all homeowners with mortgages owing more than their homes are worth, the decline in house prices reflects high rates of default and foreclosure.

For example, the decline of metal prices was in response to the weakening of activity in the automobile and construction industries in the region.

Imports of CFC 11 show a radical decline, even the demand for CFC 12 is partly decreasing while CFC prices tend to increase.

The factors responsible include the debt crisis of the 1980s, the decline in crude oil prices during those years, and reduced workers remittances.

61. One of the main causes of the external debt problem of developing countries, especially those in Africa, was the decline in real commodity prices.

29. Of particular concern to LDCs is the decline of official development assistance (ODA) and the prices of primary commodities on which they rely heavily.

1. Notes the need of the developing countries, in particular the commodity dependent developing countries, for stable and more predictable commodity prices in the face of instability and decline in real terms of the prices of many commodities

3. Notes the need expressed by developing countries, in particular the commodity dependent developing countries, for stable and more predictable commodity prices, in the face of instability and decline in real terms of the prices of many commodities

But then oil and gas prices (adjusted for inflation) entered a multi decade period of decline. Policies targeting energy efficiency and security largely lapsed.

The decline in world cocoa prices, combined with increased prices for imports, had depressed incomes and living standards in the country, which also had a high per capita debt and a high rate of extreme poverty.

The outlook for 2005 is for a slowdown in economic growth as commodity prices decline but for a slight increase in inflation.

Our economic prospects have deteriorated with the decline in commodity prices, loss of traditional markets, erosion of preferences and declining levels of ODA and foreign direct investment.

The proximate answer for the US is that a decline in lending standards helped people buy houses at ever increasing prices before 2006. Freer lending meant that people were freer to bid up prices of homes to ridiculous levels.

Europe must aim for sustainable, non inflationary growth and the creation of competitive jobs. The current inflation rate of 0.3 is due to the significant decline in commodity prices and the painful but unavoidable adjustment of costs and prices in the peripheral countries.

Under even the best circumstances for Iraq, with oil prices remaining high, the funds available to maintain and modernize the oil industry are limited. If oil prices decline in the future, the oil industry will suffer severely.

Furthermore, economists now understand inflation as a rise in consumer prices, not as a decline in the value of money resulting from an excessive increase in the money supply. Making matters worse, central banks routinely deny responsibility for any prices other than consumer prices, ignoring that the value of money is reflected in all prices, including commodities, real estate, stocks, bonds, and, perhaps most important, exchange rates.

22. The decline in timber prices has also been among the most pronounced, and reflected in the main the protracted weakness of demand in Japan (see table 1).

Confident is still at a high level. And since corporate profits are improving and prices are rising, I don't think confidence will continue to decline.

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Falling prices mean a rise in the real value of existing debts and an increase in the debt service burden, owing to higher real interest rates. As a result, defaults, bankruptcies, and economic decline become more likely, putting further downward pressures on prices.

Moreover, people nowadays easily imagine that the housing and farmland markets always move together, because prices in both boomed in recent memory, in the early 2000 s. But, from 1911 to 2010 in the US, the correlation between annual real growth of prices for homes and farmland was only 5 , and the latest data on farm prices have not shown anything like the decline in home prices.

In short, the downturn in house prices will not be limited to the US. And, on both sides of the Atlantic, that decline is likely to undermine consumer spending.

In short, the downturn in house prices will not be limited to the US. And, on both sides of the Atlantic, that decline is likely to undermine consumer spending.

The gradual increase of domestic energy prices towards world levels and privatization of industry led to a decline in the energy intensive industrial sector of 40 per cent between 1990 and 1994.

7. The recent decline in world cereal stocks to a disconcertingly low level and the corresponding rise in cereal prices raised serious concerns about world food security.

Until now, Putin has been lucky, coming to power just as oil prices started to rise. Most Russian citizens credit him with two decades of rising living standards, following decades of decline.

A decline in oil prices is to some extent a zero sum game, with producers losing and consumers gaining. The usual thinking is that lower prices stimulate global demand, because consumers are likely to spend most of the windfall, whereas producers typically adjust by cutting back savings.

Third, the secular decline in their commodity prices had resulted in a debt overhang that siphoned off scarce resources that could otherwise have been used to fight poverty.

It was widely agreed that the long run trend decline in the terms of trade of most non oil commodity prices (when measured against the prices of manufactured goods) and volatile swings around the long term price trend of commodities had adversely influenced many low income countries' capacity to benefit from trade.

Unsurprisingly, this has exacerbated the fear of deflation, with the consumer price index (CPI) rising by just 0.8 year on year in January, and the annual decline in producer prices steepening, to 4.3 . While these trends are undoubtedly being amplified by plummeting world oil prices, China's core CPI inflation rate (which excludes volatile food and energy prices) was near 1 in January.

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The prospect of falling prices reflects the collapse of industrial production, the resulting high level of unemployment, and the dramatic decline in commodity prices. Industrial production is falling at double digit rates in the negative inflation countries, and the price index for all commodities is down more than 30 over the past year.

High oil prices leave no margin, and countries have to resign themselves to a drastic and substantial decline in their economies, and a real deterioration in the quality of life they have achieved.

Recalling Resolution No. 5 10 E (IS) which expresses the concern of the Member States over the sharp decline in the prices of raw materials, particularly those produced and exported by the least developed countries

Historically, housing prices have shown a lot of momentum, and prices in all these cities are still going up at a brisk rate, though usually somewhat slower than a year or more ago. Based on extrapolation of growth trends, it looks safe to predict that prices will go up substantially in most of these places for another year or more, even as the rate of increase continues to decline.

Wholesale prices followed trends similar to those of retail prices.

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I concluded that there was a fair chance that oil prices were peaking and that before too long spot prices would reverse and start to decline. I thought it was probably the beginning of a move back down to 80 per barrel precisely where the price has landed at the end of 2014.

China s foreign exchange reserves, indeed, are facing a triple whammy a decline in the US dollar s purchasing power, a fall in the prices of US government securities, and possible inflation in the longer run.