"price trends" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when discussing current or anticipated changes in prices, for example: "Market analysts are predicting positive price trends in the coming months."
But, he added, it is also true that asset price trends are difficult to predict.
Price trends, on the other hand, appear to be breaking in unusual directions.
As a result, policymakers need the ability to monitor price trends in order to manage the economy effectively.
Then again, the average energy bill has been estimated to nudge £5,000 by 2020 if current price trends continue.
The study, which examined price trends from 1990 to 2000 in more than 80 countries, called on finance ministers to raise tobacco taxes to discourage consumption.
This kind of information, in turn, makes it easier for investors to spot price trends and to make informed investing decisions based upon real-time market conditions.
He analyzes their technical trading patterns, looking at stock trading volume, price trends and other factors over the last 18 months.
The three-month figures, which are generally a better indication of price trends than single monthly figures, showed a 1.2% fall.
Crude oil for near-month delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange, a barometer of global price trends, fell 16 cents, to $31.90.
Wage and price trends mean their combined earnings are set to fall in real terms by £860 a year in 2011-12 compared with the previous year.
Some industry watchers say that North American utility fuel buyers have not yet absorbed the implication of these price trends on their own operations.
