Glencore already gets 15% of its revenues just from China, the largest consumer of commodities in the world.
That while cultural goods, services and activities have important economic value, they are not mere commodities or consumer goods that can only be regarded as objects of trade.
So the cost of trade continues to fall, and that lowers the effective cost of everything that's traded: raw materials, labor, durable assets, consumer goods, capital, commodities and money itself.
The private sector has created a variety of commercial weather products that range from specialized forecasts for weather-sensitive businesses, such as resorts and commodities traders, to those consumer-friendly weather maps seen in newspapers and on television.
Costly commodities will deter the resurgent American consumer, and may also spook the Federal Reserve into withdrawing monetary support at a faster pace.
Before that time, it was basically clear that outside of wartime (when gold-standard conventions were often suspended), you could basically count on the dollar holding its value against major things like the consumer price level, foreign currencies, and commodities such as gold itself.
Raising it will mean shifting from commodities like mortgages to auto loans and consumer finance.
Raising it will mean shifting from such commodities as mortgages to auto loans and consumer finance.
Brazil is also wrestling with inflation, thanks to a QE2 fed commodities bubble and local demand for credit and consumer goods and services driving up prices.
It is much more likely that they will all end up as makers of interchangeable commodities for the digital home, that the consumer cares little about unless the stuff breaks down.
Carnival has stepped up efforts to rein in costs as it struggles with commodities costs and a sluggish global economy weighs on consumer confidence.
As emerging economies push the prices of commodities up and those of manufactured goods down, consumer-price inflation is no longer a reflection of domestic monetary conditions, nor is low inflation a guarantor of economic stability.
China has also become another major consumer for LNG as it looks to replace its heavy dependence of oil based commodities with LNG.
FORBES: Asian LNG Demand Can Help Offset Slowdown Fears For Oil Majors
Brazil on the other hand is a big commodities exporter, so the biggest culprit there is foreign direct investment and consumer demand.
This ETF gives access to the Chinese materials and commodities sector that would benefit from increased home building and the purchase of consumer appliances and furniture associated with it.
The Fed is currently focused on stoking economic growth, but Bernanke may be betting that the current commodities boom will end, or at least taper off, stabilizing oil prices and easing consumer inflationary pressures.
Considered from an investment standpoint, commodities such as oil and gold continue to rise in nominal terms while the dollar falls, but sticky consumer prices remain relatively stable.
应用推荐