fall in price

They also said the subsequent fall in price and increase in inventories was due to the slowdown in the world economy.

Components, especially memory chips, have continued to fall in price.

It therefore suits for shares to fall in price from time to time as you can buy more at the lower price.

In a competitive market economy it is the high-cost producers, the inefficient producers, that are driven out by a fall in price.

Therefore, as a country's asset markets rise in price, its currency would fall in price, largely in inverse proportion.

Short selling is a strategy that hedge fund managers use, and it involves selling a security that the trader assumes will fall in price.

The possibility of a fall in price is rather remote, I'm afraid.

The longer the maturity, the more a bond will fall in price for any given increase in interest rates.

Speculators, by contrast, buy and sell securities based on whether they believe those securities will next rise or fall in price.

A fall in price is more likely to prompt a stampede than a calm appraisal of valuations.

One reason financial institutions are in trouble is because they keep having to write-down the value of the assets as they fall in price.

Taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill to buy the assets and could wind up on the hook if they continue to fall in price or can't be sold.

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