But, it is steadier than any other commodity or good or service yet discovered.
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Stocks will then crash, big time, taking down the economy and deflating the commodity bubble for good.
If recent reform efforts have taught us anything it is that good will is a rare commodity.
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Other countries riding high today because of good prices for a single commodity, such as Botswana, which is doing well from diamonds, should stimulate new, competitive industries, such as tourism.
"While not directly related to investing, the reader will get a good understanding on how any commodity, even one as abundant and simple as salt can have an impact on the economy and culture, " said Lowlicht.
The commodity markets turned lower last week, as good weather dampened the extreme bullishness in the corn market and the dollar bounced.
But low inflation isn't good for industrials, the reason energy and commodity plays are in the doghouse.
Sneakers were certainly a commodity cheap and standard and practical and generally not very good.
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Say good-bye to our decadelong, China-fueled global commodity bubble.
He too is seen as having done a good job in a previous post, as head of the state commodity regulator.
Not good enough, retort critics, who see Lula as having surfed the commodity boom on Mr Cardoso's unpopular, but necessary, liberalising reforms.
But, thanks largely to two huge slices of good luck, in the form of Asia's crisis and falling commodity prices, these concerns proved premature.
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And it might be a good opportunity to load up on FCX if you can stand the volatility in commodity stocks.
This is a good thing as it will reduce cost pressures and reduce the size of the commodity supply surge ahead, helping avoid a crash in commodity prices.
The boost in business may sound like good news, but the market has reacted quite harshly to anything cyclical and commodity related in the past two months in which Yanzhou has lost one-third of its market value.
Whereas big swings in oil prices usually reflect supply shocks, and precious metals are often seen as a safe haven in times of crisis, The Economist's commodity price index (which excludes oil and precious metals) has traditionally been a fairly good leading indicator of turning-points in global industrial output.
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That's a good thing, it seems to me, an indication that black features, once a rare commodity, are moving into the American mainstream where they belong.
The good news is that weak inflation in China, due to lackluster domestic demand and some lower commodity prices, will allow Beijing monetary authorities to keep interest rates low in the coming months.
Crude oil bulls have gained good upside near-term technical momentum recently, which is a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.
Friends say he, and CQS' 160-member staff, are good at integrating many fields of activity--politics, financial flows, central bank strategies, commodity prices and so on--into a snapshot and then acting very quickly.
Crude oil bulls have gained good upside near-term technical momentum this week, which is a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.
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