Because future prices are hard to predict, this yield measurement is only an estimation of return.
Meanwhile production costs continue to rise, meaning future prices must be still higher for sales to be profitable.
This has pushed down current prices and pushed up future prices of pork.
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This increased appetite to invest in the future prices of commodities such as corn and soybeans has affected food prices globally.
The answer hinges on the future prices of copper, gold and molybdenum.
But many of these new developments are already preleased at present rates, a sign that future prices and demand are locked in, Mr. Miller said.
Crude-oil-future prices rose about 1% on the news of Greenspan's remarks.
If buyers' expectations about future prices and lenders' willingness to extend credit are both based on recent price increases, demand will then rise further, pushing prices higher still.
Right now in the all-important oil world of the Middle East and North Africa, short-term supply, future prices, ownership and preferred trading partners are all up in the air.
Verghese asserts that doesn't hit Olam badly because it is more about connecting the supply chain than holding stockpiles and thereby betting on future prices (in fact, it hedges them).
Recent returns can be used to predict whether most market experts will be bullish or bearish in their next television appearance, but those opinions rarely tell us anything about future prices.
The tool the Chinese government used to discipline Unilever on Friday was the country's Price Law, a regulation that limits public commentary about future prices to avoid anticompetitive practices, including price fixing.
Contango involves a scenario where future prices for a given commodity are higher than spot prices whereas backwardation involves a scenario where future prices for a given commodity are lower than spot prices.
The modern Philips Curve model shows that pushing down unemployment results not merely in a corresponding one-time jump in inflation, but in spiraling, ever-increasing inflation, as consumers factor in the expectations of higher future prices.
The new law meant an influx of fresh money buying oil futures as a financial investment rather than as a means of locking in future prices (which is what actual users of oil had been doing).
The current contango in oil markets (meaning: future prices are above spot prices) has allowed Plains to make a low-risk profit buying oil for its own account, selling futures and letting the purchased oil sit around.
Besides wondering what to expect in the way of future prices, participants will be looking for guidance on what this might mean for physical demand, as well as the outlook for industrial demand, especially for the more industrial precious metals such as silver, platinum and palladium.
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No one can consistently forecast future market prices and I am no exception.
In general, the charts contained useful information about future share prices.
But because there's been a surge of U.S. oil and gas supply, a phenomenon that could weigh on future energy prices, some are wary of these stocks.
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Omar Abbosh, of Accenture, a consultancy, says that carbon trading as practised in the EU and contemplated in America does not give enough certainty about future carbon prices to justify an investment in a CCS plant.
He made his big splash in 1973 with his best-selling takedown of stock-picking, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, in which he illustrated the futility of accurately predicting future stock prices, noting how a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock page of a newspaper could pick winners as well as a Wall Street professional.
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But for most British people, the future of beef prices is the least of their worries.
The big banks can manipulate future metal commodity prices but small speculators are learning the game by reducing risk and removing stops.
China could also play a role as a big buyer of oil, to stock up supply for future use as prices decline.
The rate-setters' fear was that inflation would persist if firms and households used today's rate as a benchmark for future wages and prices.
The outlook for unconventional gas is exceptionally bright with expectations for relatively low future natural gas prices, enough supply to meet domestic needs, and surplus enough to export to other countries.
From early 2008 to the summer of 2009, gold formed a massive reverse head and shoulders pattern that signaled to me that a future spike in prices was on the horizon.
This was "over-optimistic" about the future of house prices, even compared to forecasts available at the time, as it suggested that there would be a 5% fall in house prices in 2008.
What I feel is most important, especially in trying to get a handle on future crude oil prices, is the general ability of the oil producers (including the US) to satisfy consumer demand, across all product types.
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