Sentence examples for period of falling from inspiring English sources

To most people, a bear market means an extended period of falling stock prices.

A bear market is defined as a long period of falling prices of securities, like stocks.

But it could well reassert itself in a period of falling house prices.

Both Greece and Cyprus have had an extended period of falling prices.

Quantitative easing was used by Japan when it faced deflation - a period of falling prices - from 2001 until 2006.

He said deflation – a period of falling prices – would continue into the autumn, but it has been easing.

That interval seems arbitrary and includes periods of falling temperatures (which help make the contrast greater).

And governments that preside over periods of falling living standards – as this one has – tend to get turfed out.

Like many addicts, David's last years were filled with moments of being clean, and ugly periods of falling back into drugs.

Brief periods of falling prices – particularly if concentrated among one or two commodities – can be good news; but economists fret about periods of persistently falling prices, which can undermine spending and investment and feed through to wages, as consumers and businesses delay spending, expecting goods to be even cheaper in future.

In periods of falling commodity prices, the only way businesses could increase income was by cutting production costs, through the application of new inventions and technological innovations.