Gasoline prices, reflecting recent price increases granted to Petrobras (PBR), rose 4.10% from January.
That suggests fund buying may be behind some of the recent price increases.
Janjigian notes that investment risks include rising raw material and transportation costs, but he also points out that recent price increases should keep earnings strong.
As we have reported previously on ManagingTheDragon.com (MTD), Andy believes that much of these recent price increases are food related and due primarily to weather conditions.
If buyers' expectations about future prices and lenders' willingness to extend credit are both based on recent price increases, demand will then rise further, pushing prices higher still.
In summary, I believe that these recent price increases are more attributable to the excess liquidity in the financial system than a sudden positive shift in global economic fundamentals.
FORBES: After The Gold Rush -- Commodities Prices: Why So High?
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) it's quite a heavy legislating day - but first, there's an eclectic selection of questions to ministers, with peers asking about cultural diversity in the media and creative industries, progress in discontinuing funding for the Republic of Ireland's aids to navigation, discussions with energy providers about recent price increases and the shortage of midwives.
Many economic studies have cited ethanol production as the single most important driver of recent world food price increases.
India's ruling Congress party said it won't reverse a decision to let foreign supermarkets invest in the country, but it might be willing to partially roll back recent fuel-price increases.
Despite recent increases in the price of crude oil, energy prices are below last year's peak.
The biggest price increases in recent years have come in contemporary art--particularly Chinese paintings--and in 20th-century decorative arts.
The price increases of recent months have stemmed from a marked drop in stockpiles of oil, particularly in America.
However, he cautioned that when interest rates ultimately start to rise again as the wider economy recovers, the strong house price increases of recent months "would become difficult to sustain".
Although pay rises have been surprisingly moderate in recent months, firms have become more confident about their ability to push through price increases.
Gold producers are expected to report increases in quarter-over-quarter profits, given recent strength in the price of gold and continuing operational cost containment.
In a recent blog post, Paul Krugman noted that the sub 2.5% increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past few years are all that is needed to prove me wrong.
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