And purchasers said in the survey that they expected the cost of materials to stay unchanged and labor costs to decline.
ConAgra predicted its net income would rise 8 percent to 10 percent in 2011, with the bulk of the growth in the second half of the year when it expected potato costs to decline.
But on Wednesday Bank of America said it expected such costs to decline more quickly, as the number of past-due home loans falls.
To the Editor: Your editorial correctly states that new health care technologies often lead to medical progress, but also regrettably to increased and unaffordable costs, unlike in other fields where new technology usually causes costs to decline.
Although Occidental Petroleum said it was still working on capital expenditure figures, the Los Angeles-based company said since it expects costs to decline if demand slows, it didn't plan on making any drastic spending cuts.
The disease has caused populations of bats, estimated to save agricultural industries billions of dollars a year in pest-control costs, to decline by more than 80percentt in the U.S. northeast, a U.S. Geological Survey study shows.
However, even as sequencing costs continue to decline, the costs of capture reagents for each additional line are fixed.
Expect your hybrid car to cost significantly more than a conventional one, and consider delaying your purchase until the new technology's cost begins to decline.
One can expect the rearrangements-based inference and phylogenomics in general to become more and more widespread as DNA sequencing cost continues to decline and new computational tools are developed to deal with this kind of data.
Indeed, as the costs of PCR and sequencing costs continue to decline rapidly relative to collecting expenses, the overall proportion of costs associated with them should become less of a concern.
