Banks began to slow their new lending, and defaults on mortgages began to rise.

Japan s slow growth and low interest rates over the past two decades are emblematic.

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The outlook for 2005 is for a slowdown in economic growth as commodity prices decline but for a slight increase in inflation.

Weak oil prices greatly contributed to the slow growth and most projections suggest that they will remain comparatively low over the medium term.

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Likewise, many emerging market central banks reacted to slower growth and lower inflation by cutting policy rates as well.

The growth slowdown is a much greater concern than the recent asset price volatility, even if the latter grabs more headlines.

Moreover, two thirds of the decline is attributable to slower investment rather than slower consumption.

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Economic efficiency, investment, and employment would take a significant hit, while slower growth would be accompanied by higher prices, including for basic food items.

Soaring food prices before the global financial crisis provided a warning, as does the slowing rate of growth of agricultural productivity.

These structural changes have put most Latin American economies on a sound footing, reducing their vulnerability to external shocks, such as deceleration in world economic growth, higher international interest rates, and lower commodity prices.

So, even as growth slowed, the central bank raised interest rates in order to rebalance demand and the available supply, causing the economy to slow further.

Indeed, its sluggishness has confounded even the experts.

Slowing up production on oil raises the price.

This happened in 1980 1981, when the US Federal Reserve raised real interest rates, ostensibly to kill inflation, inducing a global economic downturn as well.

With deflating housing bubbles, high oil prices, and a strong euro already impeding growth, the ECB is virtually ensuring a sharp euro zone slowdown.

But a slowdown in China s economic growth cannot really be blamed for slower sales of luxury goods or empty malls.

Slower growth means less revenue, and a faster downward spiral.

The Slow Movement advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace.

a slow down in offshore petroleum exploration activity.

Nevertheless, there have been substantial lags in other important sectors.

SINGAPORE Luxury brand companies stock prices plunged in July, after their financial results disappointed investors, owing largely to slower sales in emerging markets, especially in China.

As European growth slows, so will inflationary pressures.

The financial crisis may slow this trend.

The most immediate threat is the slowdown in the advanced economies.

But, with the economy slowing, it has become a model in need of renewal.

The second reason for India s slowdown stems from the global financial crisis.

He has continuously stressed the need for slowing population growth.

In fact, this summer s asset price correction reinforced a view many of us already had that the US economy was slowing, led by sagging productivity and a deteriorating housing market.

A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export led economy.

But the price for protecting workers and firms was slower growth and higher unemployment.

Even the pessimists are speaking only of lower positive growth.

Do Low Interest Rates Ensure High Asset Prices?

The fruit prices. Arbegla, tell them the riddle of the fruit prices.

Gold prices are extremely sensitive to global interest rate movements.

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Deceleration in India and China would lead to further cuts in prices for raw materials, weakening markets whose strength has underpinned Brazil s powerful trade performance in recent years.

Sometimes it is a good deal of the relationship comes from countries where interest rates are higher and the stock market is lower, and where a higher debt GDP ratio does indeed mean slower growth.

The recent rise in oil prices also posed a challenge to world economic growth and, in particular, the economic development of many developing countries. Other possible constraints on growth included a lull or even reversal of the trend in appreciating housing prices in many large economies and a significant rise in long term interest rates and risk adverse financial markets.