Sentence examples for prices weaken from inspiring English sources

We could see prices weaken slightly in the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013".

"The Saudis know that sustained high prices weaken economic activity, decrease demand and encourage non-OPEC production.

As a haven currency, the franc strengthens when American share prices weaken, bond prices rise or the currency markets wobble, according to Angelo Ranaldo of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and Paul Söderlind of the University of St Gallen.

"The world economy is in risk of a recession and on that possibility, commodity prices weaken," said Allen L. Sinai, chief global economist for Decision Economics, a consulting firm.

Two more lenders, both of them relatively small, were taken over by the government last Friday, and many analysts believe more banks will fail as home prices weaken and loan defaults mount.

However, given that PC DRAM still represents about half of Micron’s business, Kalra believes the stock "will have downside" when DRAM prices weaken.

Global oil prices weakened this week on the prospect of extra supply entering the market.Hopes of a rapid rise in Iranian output may be optimistic.

Fixing prices weakens the incentive for hospitals to compete on cost and makes it harder for them to compete on quality where this involves more expensive treatments.

Haworth, Hatfield and O'Neill said as prices weakened into July, short-term traders followed the downward momentum and established positions to benefit from further price drops.

This set off a spiral of falling bond prices, weakening banks and slowing growth.Even where troubled euro-zone countries had not been profligate, they have been running unsustainable current-account deficits.

Real estate prices weakened slightly, but the measures also resulted in a steep deceleration in the construction industry last spring and summer, causing a sharp slowdown in economic growth across China.