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The recent downward trend follows an alarming spike in recruitment by Daesh from the region.
Worse still, could the mood in housing markets soon lead prices in downward?
At this point, there is likely to be some downward instability in prices, because enthusiasm for investing in houses is likely to wane in line with declining price growth.
Then, contagion within and across markets can work in a downward direction, propelling prices lower for years.
This shift is putting downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices and offsetting the cost of South Australia’s Renewable Energy Target in the short term, all to the benefit of consumers.
The latest anecdotal evidence from the US indicates that the economy is taking a sharp downward turn, which should become manifest in the coming months.
The latest IMF forecast for global growth has been revised downward yet again – suggesting the world will grow at an annual rate of just over 3% this year and again in 2017.
Furthermore, oil prices today are subject to a powerful source of downward pressure: the expectation that the world economy will be restructured in response to worries about climate change.
Because the EITC expands the supply of low-income workers, it can exert downward pressure on wages.
To avoid such a scenario, the majority could implement tough reforms, such as raising the retirement age, or appease young people by redistributing resources through greater inter-vivos transfers (downward altruism).
One could even argue that young Parisians were individually fighting for their parents’ well-being, but collectively to preserve the downward flows of resources.
So, for society as a whole, downward altruism is anything but altruistic.
So, what NASDAQ's crash tells us is that the new economy is more likely to be a source of downward pressure on profit margins than of large, durable quasi_rents.
Those who fear geopolitical catastrophe will sell assets, putting downward pressure on their value, only if there are other, safer assets that they see that they can buy.
Tighter regulation of lending standards has shut out an important source of global investment demand, putting downward pressure on interest rates.
Europe will join America in a downturn, reinforcing America's decline and setting in motion a global downward spiral.
Exchange-rate arbitrage by mainland importers and multinationals creates upward pressure on the CNY and downward pressure on the CNH.
But Tunisia has embraced political inclusion, and could soon find itself back on the path toward healthy economic growth, while Egypt’s closing society positions its economy for a downward spiral.
They reiterated their commitment to the Stability and Growth Pact, which requires euro-zone countries to raise taxes and cut spending, putting even more downward pressure on their economies.
No one considers how to put further downward pressure on the economy by raising tax rates and cutting back on spending programs.
But this is hardly a sufficient observation, because excessive pre-crisis real-estate investment made a sharp downward adjustment inevitable.
That drives up affected governments’ borrowing costs further, fueling a downward spiral.
Actual appreciation would lead to actual deflation and further downward pressure on domestic interest rates.
The risk is that when the roller coaster careens downward, a debt crisis will derail markets.
Furthermore, at this stage of the commodity cycle, price declines typically retain downward momentum.
As these investments bear fruit, the increased supply will sustain downward pressure on prices.
But the downward trend in the trade balance is clear.
As in Japan, the downward trend in China’s saving rate will show up in its current account.
Because equity-backed debt has been issued to China’s highly leveraged corporate sector, the decline in stock prices has triggered collateral calls and forced asset sales, putting further downward pressure on equity values.
Meanwhile, Trump will continue to accuse China of manipulating its exchange rate, ignoring the recent downward pressure on the renminbi (which indicates that the currency was actually overvalued), not to mention the simple fact that many governments intervene to manage their exchange rates.
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