Sentence examples for prices diminished from inspiring English sources

Economic reports showing higher retail sales and producer prices diminished prospects that the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates, sending the dollar up.

Higher jobless claims, lower orders for capital goods and for consumer goods, lower stock prices, diminished consumer expectations, and the smaller yield on the 10-year Treasury note relative to the overnight bank lending rate pulled the index down.

In the third sub-period from January 2003 to December 2006, the effect of loeoi, the proxy of fundamental factor group, on the international Brent oil prices diminished to 13.3%.

These governments had better come to terms with this reality right away and stop creating expectations among their people that they can effectively compensate for the recessionary effects of lower export volumes, much reduced commodity prices, diminished remittances from their citizens working abroad and acute scarcity of credit and investment in international markets.

Because of the incitements from increasing petroleum prices, diminishing petroleum reserves and the environmental consequences of exhaust gases from petroleum fueled engines, biodiesel has been used as a substitute of the regular diesel in recent years.

Naturally, the recent development of oil prices diminishes the pressures to increase low-sulphur fuel prices.

Further, Alvarez et al. (2008) showed in their research that the random walk-type behavior in energy futures prices, thus the autocorrelation in oil prices diminishes over time.

Worse still, to generate the amount of commissions needed to satisfy such a large pool of banks, the offering size may be stretched and the price diminished.Such convoluted steps belie the underlying strength of what is being sold.

And by the 1800s, the silver was depleted and its global price diminished, sending the city into a decline that it is only recently recovering from, thanks to the demand for tin, lead and zinc.

Publishers felt that price diminished the value of their hardcover sales and preferred to set their own ebook prices.

The Airline Transport Association said government involvement in airline pricing "diminishes customer choice and competitive differentiation among carriers".