Higher interest rates, however, should eventually slow global growth, and so crimp demand for other commodities.
And the market for bauxite and alumina, its main export goods, has been rockier than for other commodities.
So they started by studying advertising campaigns for other agricultural commodities, such as almonds, avocados, eggs, and milk.
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These two countries are also blamed for sending other commodities into the stratosphere.
However, the declines are smaller than those for other exotic agricultural commodities.
Or was the better bet to believe University of Illinois' Julian Simon, who said prices for oil and other commodities would drop?
It will hold a titanium grip on trading in interest rate futures and indexes, and a firm control over the markets for agricultural and other commodities.
Similarly disturbing statistics are true for many other industrial commodities.
The only significant decline in the demand for oil and other commodities will come from Europe as we begin to see the European banking system implode due to exorbitant leverage and the ineptness of the European Central Bank and the IMF to solve the crisis.
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Prices have soared for a variety of other commodities, such as copper, soybeans and cattle.
Further, Toussaint related, portfolio managers might also be looking at the difference between gold and other commodities for diversification.
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In the 19th century, the British set up a factory in Dundee, Scotland, to process raw jute into yarn before weaving it into bags for storing coal and other commodities.
The year started on an upswing for stocks, commodities and other riskier investments such as emerging-market currencies.
The raising of the value of the Yuan can make it less expensive for China to import oil and other commodities but can also increase the price of oil to the U.S. consumers as the value of the dollar continues to decline.
So these are the areas where we have active requests for commodities, generators, and other support.
Metals markets are particularly attractive for sharp operators because, unlike some other commodities, or equities, the underlying asset can be stored indefinitely without spoilage or change.
Dollar weakness tends to help gold by attracting buying as a hedge or alternative currency and since it makes all commodities cheaper for holders of other currencies, and vice-versa.
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Finally, House Republicans should pass legislation removing the discretionary monetary policy powers of the Federal Reserve, mandating it to conduct monetary policy in accordance with a price rule following market prices for gold, silver, oil and other commodities.
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Because when asked, central bankers will repeatedly cite the diversifying power of gold as a major reason to own it. (See this French central banker speaking in 2000, for instance.) Unlike other metals and commodities, gold is not tied to the economic cycle, nor the stock market.
In America, the taxpayers continue to pay excessive amounts out of their dwindling real incomes for energy, food, and other traded commodities (copper, cotton, coffee, livestock, cocoa, etc.) so that the Wall Street banks (yes, the very ones that the taxpayers saved only 2.5 years ago) can show record profits and pay record bonuses!
Costs are rising for companies as the price of oil and other commodities goes up.
The global contraction in demand is now forcing the Kazakh government, which has long been criticised for its over-reliance on oil and other commodities, to seek ways of diversifying its economy.
It is worthwhile to note that other energy and agriculture commodities are also down for the day.
Commerzbank is also cautious for investors who see the potential to pick up commodities other than gold given recent losses.
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Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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The increase in the value of the yuan since 2004 means that the price of oil, iron ore, copper, agricultural products and all other commodities have gone down by 25% for China-based manufacturing relative to U.S. based manufacturing.
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Fortunately for the industrialised world, the trend has not spread to other commodities yet.
Virtual water is, for this argument, the water embedded in staple and other food commodities.
He also used total return swaps to bet on developed world stocks and commodities on the cheap, freeing up money for other investments.
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