That has led to a fall in demand and prices of commodities such as iron ore.
In the meeting, I asked what impact the rapidly rising prices of commodities was having on profit margins.
The economies are growing, and a lot of their growth and their economies depend on the availability and prices of commodities.
This increased appetite to invest in the future prices of commodities such as corn and soybeans has affected food prices globally.
To make matters worse, prices of commodities such as iron ore have also fallen in recent months, hurting mine companies' profits.
Since the prices of commodities and financial assets are among the most flexible, policymakers should let them vary and should stabilise stickier prices instead.
Prices of commodities held steady following a wild couple of days.
If there is any drop in oil prices the prices of commodities will shoot up as the excess capital runs dry and state subsidies are cut.
In terms of this decade, currency weakness has driven up the nominal prices of commodities ranging from gold to steel to oil, and investment has followed.
As Japan rebuilds from the March 11 earthquake, it could drive up the prices of commodities in which China also imports, mainly oil and iron ore.
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More than a dozen residents of Damascus and Aleppo interviewed by CNN complained of daily power outages and rising prices of commodities including sugar and cooking fuel.
Much of the missing customer money belonged to farmers, ranchers and other business owners who used MF Global to reduce their risks from the fluctuating prices of commodities such as corn and wheat.
The first quarter of 2011 was an eventful one, with volatility spiking as political uprisings rattled the Middle East and Northern Africa, a natural disaster struck Japan and prices of commodities surged.
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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.
Without flocks of resort-goers, nations in this part of the world would have to rely more heavily on agriculture, leaving their economies at the mercy of the fluctuating prices of commodities like coffee, sugar and bananas.
Inflation is a pernicious tax that has revealed itself over the last decade through record prices of commodities (think gasoline), reduced job opportunities thanks to investors going on strike, and the mother of all financial crises.
They are beginning to experience exactly the same dilemma faced by their counterparts in America and Europe: how to set monetary policy when threatened with an American-led downturn on the one hand, and rises in the prices of commodities and food on the other.
But prices of agricultural commodities are low because of overproduction.
Commodities speculators assume the risk that prices of various commodities might go up or down.
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The most familiar effect of inflation is a general rise in prices, as opposed to a rise of particular commodities prices because of factors in those markets.
The explanation for the sudden spikes in the prices of many commodities in recent years lies in nothing more sinister than the laws of supply and demand.
Analysts argue that prices of many commodities may not have much further to fall.
When fuel prices rise, the cost production and transportation rise, putting upward pressure on the prices of other commodities.
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But farmers devoted more cropland to corn and soybeans as prices of those commodities rose, and when the U.S. economy rebounded in 2009, cotton supplies started to pull tight.
In the absence of such signals, it would have taken even bigger and more extended swings in the prices of physical commodities to bring supply and demand into balance.
The Fund attributes the difference to increased violence in the months leading up to the January 2005 parliamentary elections, which raised the prices of key commodities like gas and food.
Both trends have helped to propel the crop's price to dizzy heights, with the prices of other commodities from which fuel can be made, such as sugar and rapeseed oil.
He says he voted for the Congress party because the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had failed, among other things, to keep its promise of bringing down the prices of essential commodities.
So unless President Obama can convince our trading partners to not raise the prices of those commodities, production costs will necessary increase, thus similarly erasing any supposed gains achieved through monetary mischief.
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By the same token, the prices of several commodities that are not traded on any exchanges, such as iron ore and rice, have been rising almost as fast as that of oil.
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