If the Fed pursues a new round of quantitative easing, it will be buying a highly liquid commodity at market rates.
There was a "clear correlation" between price of copper on commodity markets and rates of crime, he told MPs, suggesting cable theft was largely the work of "professional criminals".
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Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research at TD Securities, said just chatter from Iran and Israel could push the risk premium on crude higher.
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Bart Melek, vice president and director head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research at TD Securities, said that change in strategy by the Fed to outright purchases is supportive to gold.
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Often, traders have tended to take positions ahead of Fed releases or appearances in which market participants have factored in a greater likelihood of more QE, pointed out Bart Melek, director of commodity strategy, rates and foreign-exchange research for TD Securities.
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All of this is supportive for gold prices, and it may prompt people to buy the yellow metal as an inflation hedge as worries that the current high oil prices will last into the summer, said Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research and TD Securities.
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The first two will do well if inflation returns and interest rates and commodity prices rise.
Three, you don't have to predict commodity trends or interest rates to take an informed, sensible approach to sectors in your portfolio.
The company has been profit-forecasting on a monthly basis for about 40 years, trying to predict components such as sales, commodity prices and exchange rates.
Bank of England deputy governor Charles Bean was also quoted as saying the Bank may have no choice but to increase rates if commodity prices rise further.
"The historic response, if you like, is has always been to look to subsidize, to insulate the impact of the fluctuations of exchange rates and commodity prices by looking to subsidize ... things like bread, " Hanna told CNN.
And cash, today's currency of choice, is a remarkably cheap commodity thanks to low interest rates and abundant liquidity.
Economic policy in these nations has evolved, to the point where they have managed to efficiently navigate a global environment of high commodity prices, low interest rates, and large capital flows.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, situated in the heart of America's farm country, concluded earlier this year that the surge in farmland prices had been driven by a combination of low interest rates and high commodity prices.
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He has no control over interest rates, international finance or commodity prices.
Interest rates have been low and commodity prices have been high.
Significantly, the vast expansion in markets for options, futures and derivatives occurred mostly after 1971, with the onset of floating exchange rates, wildly-gyrating interest rates, and swings in commodity prices.
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The company has trimmed its profit forecasts three times this fiscal because of slowing sales growth in Europe and the U.S., rising commodity costs, unfavorable foreign-exchange rates and price reductions.
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The company has trimmed its profit forecasts thrice this fiscal because of slowing sales growth in Europe and the U.S., rising commodity costs, unfavorable foreign-exchange rates and price reductions, fueling investor pessimism.
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If a spike in interest rates, a surge in commodity prices, or a currency crisis forces the Fed to scale back or stop its money printing, the party could grind to a halt, and the hangover could be nasty.
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The persistent strength of commodity prices helps to explain why headline inflation rates have been stubbornly high in many countries, despite their struggling economies.
Some comfort can be taken from the fact that, although some commodity prices are above 2008 levels, inflation rates of commodities are still below what they were then.
But, the Fed shoulders some responsibility for commodity inflation because its policy of negative real interest rates allows speculators, including me, to benefit from the minimal expense of carrying huge debit balances.
The resource curse damages the economies of countries blessed with great exportable natural wealth, increasing volatility by an overreliance on global commodity prices, starving other sectors, distorting exchange rates, and driving painful cycles of boom and bust.
In the past low rates would probably have been accompanied by low commodity prices.
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Yet farm values have held up much better than they did in the 1930s or even in the 1980s, when prices fell by around a third in real terms as commodity prices dropped and the Federal Reserve used high interest rates to squeeze inflation out of the system.
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The chief difference today is that pervasive deflation in commodity prices is suppressing inflation and we are enjoying low interest rates at home.
Finally, the Federal Reserve should cease its deflationary monetary policy, which has sent real short-term interest rates to very high levels and has helped batter commodity prices.
Finally, the Federal Re-serve should cease its deflationary monetary policy, which has sent real short-term interest rates to very high levels and has helped batter commodity prices.
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.
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