"easing prices" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a decrease or softening in the cost of goods or services. An example of using "easing prices" in a sentence could be: "The current economic climate has led to easing prices for consumers, making it more affordable to purchase luxury items."
The copper shortage is now easing: prices slid to a nine-month low this week as speculators sold; industrial demand is slowing and stocks are rising.
Oil stocks are likely to rise, because purchasers will load up at today's lower prices rather than wait, thereby easing prices in a few months' time.
Mr. Gore and Mr. Lieberman heralded the recent release of oil from our existing Strategic Petroleum Reserve as instrumental in easing prices and building inventories of heating oil.
The rate of inflation in the United States slowed slightly in August, when a rise in food prices was tempered by easing prices for gasoline and automobiles, according to government statistics released Thursday.
BEIJING — More signs that the Chinese economy stuttered unexpectedly in April emerged Friday, with lower-than-expected output data, softening retail sales and easing prices all suggesting that rising economic difficulties could require robust policy responses from Beijing.
The idea is to invite oil companies to remove oil today from the reserve, expanding the supply and easing prices somewhat, in exchange for returning an even larger amount of oil in the future.
Part of the decrease, he said, came from easing price increases for pork, one of the nation's staple foods.
In the long run, it should curb speculative demand, helping to ease prices.
So there seems little immediate prospect of fresh supplies coming on to the market to ease prices.
Not even the rise of corporate chain owners -- large enough to exploit economies of scale -- has eased prices.
But if Mr. Richardson intends to urge higher production to ease prices, he will be preaching to the converted.
