Second, natural resource prices are volatile, and managing this volatility is hard.

As Medvedev pointed out, a raw materials based economy is always vulnerable to volatile commodity prices.

Lack of rain in the region and volatile global food prices have made a bad situation worse.

Today, the debate is over core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices because they are too volatile.

This is a most positive initiative at a time of high and volatile energy prices and insecure supplies.

Only oil prices remain high (though volatile), no doubt influenced by the complex political events in the Middle East.

One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.

We can only assume, given wars and other uncertainties, that true market prices back then, like today, were quite volatile.

But primary product prices remain much more volatile than the prices of manufactured goods and services, causing large fluctuations in producers incomes. This exaggerates the effects of booms and busts.

Of course, we do not have annual data for Babylonian gold prices. We can only assume, given wars and other uncertainties, that true market prices back then, like today, were quite volatile.

With high and volatile oil prices, businesses will focus their investments less on boosting productivity and more on maintaining flexible energy usage.

Faced with the erratic nature of agricultural markets, regulation is needed to soften the impact on poorer countries of volatile food prices.

In the face of relatively stagnant markets, volatile prices and declining terms of trade, investment dropped further, diversification stalled and productivity remained stagnant.

In a highly integrated world of highly volatile prices and volumes, flexibility also implies the capacity to intervene and actively manage the exchange rate.

Conversely, when the monetary authority tightens credit too quickly, asset prices become more volatile, resulting in more non performing loans and triggering economic shocks.

They know that they must purchase jet fuel for as long as they want to stay in business, and fuel prices are notoriously volatile.

The scrap market, traditionally the most volatile, has maintained its unsteadiness, with prices increasing almost threefold in some countries in 2004 before falling again.

However, it seems that in the short run, the inverse relationship between oil prices and the dollar exists only under very specific circumstances, such as a crash in real estate prices and volatile financial markets.

Stock and housing prices may be volatile, but the data are much cleaner and timelier than anything available for output and inflation. This is why central bankers must think about the information embedded in asset prices.

Economic activity is thus even more volatile than commodity prices, and much of the gains made in a boom unravels in the bust that follows.

The reasons for this have not changed rising demand for energy, alongside concerns about climate change, volatile fossil fuel prices, and the security of energy supplies.

Meanwhile, on the supply side, countries are dealing with high and volatile commodity prices, including an oil price spike as a result of the Middle East uprisings.

While gold prices may temporarily move higher in the next few years, they will be very volatile and will trend lower over time as the global economy mends itself.

Indeed, many of these countries remain vulnerable to volatile commodity prices, financial system weaknesses, depressed demand from world markets, and shortfalls in external finance, overseas development assistance, and investment.

While gold prices may temporarily move higher in the next few years, they will be very volatile and will trend lower over time as the global economy mends itself.

Given that investment banks can only attain high rates of return in a world with volatile asset prices and short term performance goals, companies pressure their managers to follow suit.

Domestic politics remained volatile.

Financial flows are excessively volatile.

The subregional context remains volatile.

The subregional context remains volatile.

But all of the other 30 drops occurred at times when stock prices were much more volatile. Thus, the February 27th drop really stands out, as do other recent one day drops.

Dam protests can often be volatile.

Reputations are volatile. Loyalties are fickle.

Fifth, in the long run, a weaker dollar decreases supply and increases demand. However, it seems that in the short run, the inverse relationship between oil prices and the dollar exists only under very specific circumstances, such as a crash in real estate prices and volatile financial markets.

33. We emphasize the need to address the impact of weak and volatile commodity prices and support the efforts of commodity dependent countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors.

The gold market is small and volatile.

The security situation remains volatile and unpredictable.

Due to the increasingly expensive and volatile cost of energy, this strategy has become very important because it allows a way for city residents to be less susceptible to varying highs and lows in various energy prices.

In effect, it indicates the ease or difficulty of using distillation to separate the more volatile components from the less volatile components in a mixture.

Volatile stock market, getting negative feedback that's also immediate.

Sami and Layla spent a volatile day of arguing.

One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means. But we have learned time and again that stock markets are driven more by psychology than by reasoning about fundamentals.

Indeed, North Korea s behavior has since become even more volatile.

Since then, the international financial system has been highly volatile.

Iran sits at the heart of an extremely volatile region.