The index tries to measure the net increase or decrease in prices across all consumer goods.

Increases and decreases in prices inform entrepreneurs about the general economic situation, to which they must adjust their own plans.

An increase or decrease in prices while open interest remains flat or declining may indicate a possible trend reversal.

This success has been demonstrated by a decrease in prices and an increase in services in the electronic communications field.

But with more people covered by insurance, he argued, the volume of prescriptions would rise, which would offset any decrease in prices.

In other words, the arguments in favour of the thesis that international exhaustion would lead to a decrease in prices is very tenuous.

Like the Board of Realtors report, the Elliman survey showed an increase in sales over 1994 and a decrease in prices.

The poorest of the Central Asian republics has been badly hit by a substantial decrease in prices for aluminium and cotton due to the global downturn.

The classical dichotomy is the assumption that there is a relatively clean distinction between overall increases or decreases in prices and underlying, "nominal" economic variables.

Thus a general decrease in prices WILL NOT lead to deflation!!!

"When it finally comes to pass that retailers are permitted to purchase directly from producers, then you may see an increase in availability and a decrease in prices," Mr. Wesson said.

(See: Historical examples of credit deflation) This "deflation" satisfies both definitions, that of a decrease in prices and a decrease in the available quantity of money.

Basic economics tells us that more competition for networks should result in an eventual decrease in prices: good news for some consumers who, in the present system, end up paying over the odds.

The six state legislatures recognized that stabilizing the federally regulated price for New England milk will provide stable consumer prices in the short term and should yield a long-term decrease in prices.

According to Kondratieff, the ascendant phase is characterized by an increase in prices and low interest rates, while the other phase consists of a decrease in prices and high interest rates.

To the Editor: "San Francisco's Woes a Boon for Visitors" (Correspondent's Report, Aug. 31), showed a decrease in prices for hotel rooms in San Francisco.

This decrease in prices was probably driven by productivity increases created by the smoothing of consumer traffic over a longer period of time and the greater ability of consumers to compare prices in a deregulated environment.

If for any reason the price briefly falls, so that investors realize that further gains are not assured, then the spiral may go into reverse, with price decreases causing a rush of sales, reinforcing the decrease in prices.

The Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, has said that he is worried about the risk of deflation, or a general decrease in prices, and that to keep the economy growing, he would keep interest rates low and credit easily available.

The jump did not appear to be connected to "any particular outside influence," nor did it contribute to a decrease in prices on luxury properties, according to Anthony P. Cutugno, director of Houlihan/Lawrence's Luxury Country Properties division.

We applaud the Commission's stated intentions, but tremble at the proposed solutions, based mainly on the so-called inevitable trend to liberalize trade, resulting in a general decrease in prices, and with the development of raw materials on the world market as our only aim.

How far can you go in the implementation of anticipated CAP measures: a planned overall decrease in prices and a maximal decoupling of compensatory aid, in order not to compromise the situation of farmers, who are often living at the limit of what is tolerable.

By using the largest wafers available, thereby reducing the amount of wiring for a given panel area, and packaging them into panels using their new methods, by 1973 SPC was producing panels at $10 per watt and selling them at $20 per watt, a fivefold decrease in prices in two years.

Such entering demands a lot of capital investments, which would not be repaid soon due to sharp decreasing of prices at the market provoked by resumption of competition.