The phrase "abrupt price" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or unexpected change in price, often in a financial or economic context.
Example: "The company announced an abrupt price increase, catching many customers off guard."
Alternatives: "sudden price" or "sharp price".
Writing in March in Finance & Development, a journal of the International Monetary Fund, Randall Dodd highlighted three trading strategies in which the potential for instability may outweigh any efficiency gains: High-frequency trading can match thousands of buyers and sellers a minute, creating bigger and more abrupt price changes than would otherwise be the case.
How else to explain the abrupt price action, more that 50% in under two months, for commodity plays like Freeport McMoran and Rio? Nothing much happened.
The gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine in 2006 and resultant abrupt price increase of imported gas stimulated research on the effects of energy price shocks on Ukraine's economy.
Instead of breeding hesitation, abrupt price drops can quickly prompt these machines to unload a bullish long position in oil, and build up a bearish short one instead.
"We do want to avoid big jumps in price, abrupt changes in price, which can have a negative impact on payers, physicians and, most importantly, patients," Robert M. Myers, Jazz's president, told analysts in November, as the company increased Xyrem's price by 22 percent.
Just as the trade in physical commodities allows farmers to hedge against abrupt swings in price and enables consumers to count on steady supplies, economists and communications experts say a new approach that treated scarce frequencies as a commodity would allow new and older technologies to continue to flourish.
What soured them was an abrupt change to pricing.
Last month, the Bank of Canada said that the growing inventory of unsold condos in Toronto could eventually create "the risk of an abrupt correction in prices and residential construction activity".
The Karachi exchange closed for four months in late 2008 after an abrupt drop in prices; more recently, it has faced allegations by the news media of insider trading and cronyism.
Altogether, this led to the abrupt drop in prices of individual stocks and other financial instruments like exchange-traded funds, and caused shares of some prominent companies like Procter & Gamble and Accenture to trade down as low as a penny or as high as $100,000.
A money manager who fears an abrupt slide in prices can protect his portfolio by buying a put option, while one who thinks the market is likely to move up quickly can put cash to work rapidly by buying a call option.
