61.   This time around, OPEC members fear that prices could collapse again if demand softens, and analysts have said a decision to reduce output was a foregone conclusion.

62.   Wheat futures prices collapsed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade as waning export demand prompted speculators to flee the market.

63.   It said that even if Iraqi oil exports resume at the start of next year, oil prices will not collapse, all the same.

64.   There was no sign that prices would collapse, analyst William Adams at brokers Rudolf Wolff said.

65.   With the bursting of the bubble, property prices collapsed, leaving financial institutions with huge losses as loans went bad.