Analysts on Wall Street were generally critical of the merger, as both companies had been struggling before the announcement, and the stock prices of both companies dropped in the months after the merger agreement was made public.

World cashew prices dropped by more than 50 % in 2000, compounding the economic devastation caused by the conflict.

He continued to manage the rubber plantation but after the end of the war, commodity prices dropped and by 1921 it was difficult to make a profit.

But any hesitation to buy it evaporated when both Motorola and Intel dropped the prices on their own designs from $ 179 to $ 69 at the same show in order to compete.

Arrivals from Asian countries dropped in 1998 and 1999 due to the regional economic downturn and the depreciation of many Asian currencies against the dollar, which made Palau's dollar-denominated prices more expensive.

Headline consumer price inflation dropped from 26 % in 1993 to an average rate of 7. 5 % in 2004, though this was boosted by hikes in subsidized utilities prices ahead of Slovakia ’ s accession to the European Union.

Prices dropped 70 % over the next few years, to nearly US $ 20 per kilogram ; prices rose sharply again after tropical cyclone Hudah struck Madagascar in April 2000.

Records sold because their fidelity improved, mass production processes were soon developed, advertising worked, and prices dropped from one and two dollars to around 35 cents .".

A local fishing industry also existed, but collapsed when international fish prices dropped.

As a result the market for cotton was overloaded, and prices dropped 50 %.

Year-on-year, consumer prices dropped for six months in a row to end-August 2009, largely due to a steep decline in energy prices.

Consumer prices dropped 1 percent in October, 2008.

Unemployment became widespread, wages and prices dropped and bankruptcies followed one another In disturbing sequence.

In the early 1960s, however, the weights and the prices dropped when vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors.

The IAPI began shortchanging growers and, when world grain prices dropped in the late 1940s, it stifled agricultural production, exports and business sentiment, in general.

Following the war, prices dropped significantly, leading to hard times throughout much of the 1920s.

Agricultural prices dropped 40 % from their 1929 level, and coal production dropped by half.

Production continued and prices dropped but the company continued to decline.

Oley Nicklie, a Native Alaskan, sought work with the railroad after fur prices dropped.

At the bank, Edna is faced with the obvious facts: with cotton prices dropped to 3. 5 cents a pound, this will only generate 175 dollars.

Midtown Direct, initiated in 1996, offers service directly into Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, and has since caused a surge in real estate prices as the commute time to midtown dropped from about 50 minutes to 30, as the service eliminated the need for passengers to transfer to PATH trains at Hoboken.

According to the Seattle Times, single-family home prices dropped more than 40 percent from a peak of $ 396, 000 in May 2007 to $ 221, 000 in March 2009.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

Diametric opposition must persist as to the future course of prices, if there is to persist a market at all.

Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.

The following is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Azerbaijan at market prices with figures in millions of Manats.

" The result is the prices with us do not drop even if they do on international market, or they do quite belated and not to the size of the international market.

The steel and railroad barons worked closely to negotiate prices instead of free market competition determinations.

In economics and finance, arbitrage () is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.

If the market prices do not allow for profitable arbitrage, the prices are said to constitute an arbitrage equilibrium or arbitrage-free market.

The transactions must occur simultaneously to avoid exposure to market risk, or the risk that prices may change on one market before both transactions are complete.

In practical terms, this is generally possible only with securities and financial products that can be traded electronically, and even then, when each leg of the trade is executed the prices in the market may have moved.

ETFs trade in the open market, with prices set by market demand.

The market prices for privately held companies are typically viewed from a return on investment perspective ( such as 25 %), whilst publicly held and or exchange listed companies trade on a Price to earnings ratio ( P / E ) ( such as a P / E of 10, which equates to a 10 % ROI ).

The concept was that because Italian bond futures had a less liquid market, in the short term Italian bond futures would have a higher return than U. S. bonds, but in the long term, the prices would converge.

* West African Agricultural Market Observer / Observatoire du Marché Agricole ( RESIMAO ), a project of the West-African Market Information Network ( WAMIS-NET ), provides live market and commodity prices from fifty seven regional and local public agricultural markets across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d ' Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Togo, and Nigeria.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Bhutan at market prices

During the intervening period, bmobile has obtained a virtual stranglehold on the cellular telecommunications market in the British Virgin Islands by a combination of low prices and aggressive advertising, as well as significant investment in infrastructure and technology.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Brunei Darussalam at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Bruneian Dollars.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Burkina Faso at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of CFA Francs.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Chad at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of CFA Francs.