But higher grain prices boosted Archer Daniels Midland.
Two years ago a weak currency and high world prices boosted gold and other mineral exporters.
A surge in consumer spending, helped by falling energy prices, boosted the figure.
Despite a lowers revenue per seat, low oil prices boosted Easyjet results.
In the five years to 1999, rising share prices boosted the wealth of American households by $10 trillion.
Rising metal prices boosted miners, with Vedanta was one of the top risers, up 61p at £22.23.
However, both the volume and value of sales increased in April compared with March as lower prices boosted sales".
Mr Edwards thinks the outcome will be a reverse of the 1990s boom, when rising asset prices boosted consumer confidence, spending and the economy.
The regulator warned in a recent report that rising wholesale prices, boosted by increased demand and the impact of soaring crude oil costs, could be passed on to the consumer.
A recent acceleration of economic growth, which now tops 7%, has so far enriched few people, even as property prices, boosted by an influx of European and Gulf Arab investment, have soared further out of reach of ordinary Moroccans.Yet even ardent critics of the government admit that much has improved.
Rising house prices boosted consumption more than higher share prices did in the 1990s, partly because far more people own houses than shares, partly because Americans regarded house-price gains as more permanent than similar gains in share prices.Germany is at the other extreme.
