The global shortage of cotton led to a speculation that the cotton prices would rise further resulting in hoarding by traders creating an artificial short-supply and driving the prices up in the futures market.
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He said shoppers are calling from all over the country looking for Volts, but he wants to sell them only to Connecticut residents that way, he can keep an eye on the short-supply cars.
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Food and energy, driven by (notoriously volatile) commodity prices, can experience short-lived supply disruptions tied to weather, geopolitics, technology failures, etc.
That may just be the natural volatility of commodities, stemming from regional drought, short-lived supply disruptions, silly policy or myriad other factors not related to money supply.
The SPR is only equipped to remedy short-term supply disruptions.
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.
On that view, it is a good time for the world's big consuming nations (including developing countries such as China) to build up buffer stocks, which provide the only real protection against short-term supply disruptions caused by embargoes, wars and the like.
If the world does run into a short-term oil supply crisis, we need to take the opportunity to find long-term solutions.
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Doctors are already in short supply--experts say an additional 5, 000 more are needed each year.
"It is wrong to imply that somehow pupils are being short-changed when supply staff are employed, " she said.
Electricity was in short supply - it cut out at noon each day.
This short-term soy supply situation does not alter the basics.
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That way, El Paso's customers--and its own trading desk--can better exploit short-term swings in supply and demand, just as they do every day in the gas and electricity markets.
During the vulnerable period of supply diversification, a hedge against potential energy supply short-falls could be created through the creation of an alliance-wide Contingency Energy Fund for the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
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It had a limited supply of short-term Treasuries in its portfolio.
Even with Gerrard, Torres and Joe Cole in the starting line-up, Liverpool attacks were in short supply and Rovers took a deserved lead on the half-hour mark.
Having lived through their own crises - which critics argue the BBC reported with gusto - sympathy is in short supply.
He said it was clear that the CIA had "obtained intelligence from high-value detainees when inside information on al-Qaeda was in short supply".
Obviously they were in short supply in this now-past Republican era.
The study, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, also found the newly discovered area also affects levels of dopamine - that is in short supply in Parkinson's patients.
Sadly, sang-froid was in short supply Stateside, and by the time Casey arrived in Seville for the first round of the World Cup, the Americans had manned the barricades.
Short of higher demand--or lower supply--is there anything that would enable carmakers to roll back their profit-sapping incentives?
It is always important to remember that over the short-term stock prices are determined by supply and demand and not fundamentals and valuation.
For the long-term, growth rates, price earnings ratios and other fundamental metrics will matter, but in the short-term, it is all about supply and demand.
These crises were not caused by money that was too stable in value, but rather a short-term inflexibility of the base money supply around the harvest season.
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Low-vision service is in short supply and poorly distributed.
Other items needed for the Iraq-bound trucks also were in short supply, such as oversized tires.
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