Deflation is the archenemy of all commodity markets, including precious metals.
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Stabilizing the value of the dollar would stabilize the economy and the financial markets, and, as a byproduct, dampen the volatility of all commodity markets, including oil.
"When you talk about the sectors that are leading on the way down, they're all commodity-backed in some fashion, " said Will Bertsch, a head of trading for BMO Capital Markets.
After all, commodity prices remain depressed as does the price of that most sensitive monetary barometer, gold.
Also, the weekend news that China eased its monetary policy is a bullish underlying factor for all raw commodity markets.
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Chinese demand for all things commodity based is one of the main reasons for price inflation in a number of these products.
Again, Canada, Malaysia and Mexico, all big commodity producers, would be among the hardest-hit, but the euro area and Japan, big commodity importers, would gain.
The Economist all-items commodity price index has risen by 21% in dollar terms since January 2002, its fastest rate of growth since 1994.
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This serves as a proxy for all of our commodity-related expenses such as food and fuel, and, as the effects of currency devaluation spread, rising prices for all sorts of goods and services.
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Oil has underperformed the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index all year, down by more than 10 percent.
"Touch is a hot commodity across all form factors, " said Brad Brooks, a Microsoft corporate vice president.
She is, after all, a marketable commodity and likely has more than one company associated with her brand.
Making creative work too much of a commodity seems to be as bad a business model as making it no commodity at all.
Traditional thought has held that commodity prices all correlate with oil.
Brutal competition, tightened consumer spending and rising commodity costs have all contributed to the company's woes.
As many major stock market averages cling near all-time highs, commodity and mining investors are feeling acutely heightened pain.
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As it became a commodity and was all about making cars accessible to everybody, it became more about standardization.
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And our teams are going to be working very hard together to come up with common papers and common positions on the issues which are of interest and which come within the agreement of the G20, such as the matter of currencies, of commodity prices, and all that needs to be done in order to reduce the current and present imbalances.
But all this is costly, and the commodity must be made to bear the cost.
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After all, developed economies that are big commodity exporters, such as Norway, allow their currencies to float.
As commodity prices rise globally, all Sri Lankans are feeling the pinch.
Globalised production lines, globalised labour markets, commodity markets, culture - all this acts like social superglue preventing any politician from even contemplating an overt protectionist or state-capitalist response.
No significant action at all by the Fed Thursday would disappoint many commodity and stock market bulls and could put downside price pressure on many markets, including the precious metals.
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In another scenario, world recovery would continue, absent Europe and sharply rising commodity prices in turn would tax all of Europe, magnifying the effects of austerity and increasing risks of revolution.
The 1980 map of Latin America was largely one of authoritarian, often military governments, generally controlled by small oligarchies, with hyper-cyclical, commodity-based economies, nearly all plagued by huge debt and hyper-inflation.
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Housing is not gold-like in the sense that gold priced in all currencies tends to rise when currencies decline in value, but the historical correlation between commodity spikes and nominal housing health is very real, and was there during the Bush years for all to see.
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Lamine says eliminating all cotton subsidies could raise world prices for the commodity by 10 percent to 12 percent.
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