In theory, global trade should cause prices in different countries to converge: the prices of low-cost producers should gradually increase as wages rise (ie, China's falling prices were a temporary anomaly), while the prices of high-cost producers should fall.
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These traders, who may be long in their core gold position, could be looking for a chance to profit on a temporary dip in prices if a debt ceiling agreement is passed.
Several dealers said they had heard the market movements even prompted a large Japanese bank to sell a huge amount of JGBs on Friday, contributing to the temporary drop in prices and spike in yields.
Conclusion: The companies got a temporary uptick in share prices but no lasting benefit.
Has Ford, its financial back already against the wall, overreacted to a temporary spike in gas prices?
Optimists see a brief conflict with only a temporary spike in oil prices.
Today, we make the same arguments and rationalize away increases in gas and food prices as temporary supply imbalances.
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Whereas recent increases in many food prices reflect temporary supply disruptions (such as droughts and flooding), the rise in the oil price is due to strong demand and stagnating production.
Indeed a temporary spike in gasoline prices affects how much people spend on other discretionary items, but they are not expected to affect the U.S. GDP in a significant way unless they are sustained well into 2012, according to many analysts.
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And four out of five people believe high gas prices are not temporary.
These spikes in gas prices are often temporary, and while there are no quick fixes to the problem, there are a few steps we should take that make good sense.
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Temporary shortages had artificially propped up prices, but a host of new capacities were in the pipeline.
This followed more than five years of falling prices apart from a temporary blip in October 2003.
The sudden advances in hydraulic fracking have lowered it to an unnatural state: the current prices are probably only temporary.
While iron ore, metallurgical coal, copper, and crude oil faced temporary supply side disruptions that boosted prices excessively, the longer-term, commodity super cycle remains intact.
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Instead, prices spiked in reponse to temporary factors, such as the fall in the dollar, export bans and panic buying.
Those who see weaker prices said the rout in gold prices is only taking a temporary reprieve and further downside is possible.
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Murrin claims to have escaped this fate by taking weakening stock prices as a sign of temporary weakness and going short crude oil.
But much of that inflation is temporary, the consequence of higher oil prices and increases in value-added taxes that formed part of many countries' austerity plans.
In light of the pending dairy cliff and the competing interests of the industry and consumers, perhaps the best course of action is for the USDA to issue temporary rules to avert a spike in prices, but those rules should be set to expire once permanent rules can be crafted through the formal (and transparent) rule making process.
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The point is the ups and downs in gas prices historically have tended to be temporary.
This could result in temporary shortages of some memory chips and higher prices.
That news boosted the U.S. stock indexes and in turn put modest, temporary downside price pressure on gold and silver prices.
Gold had seen some intensified technical selling pressure early this week, but on Tuesday the key outside markets turned bullish for gold and silver (lower U.S. dollar index, firmer crude oil prices), which brought at least a temporary halt to the downside price pressure on the precious metals.
The dollar strength is likely temporary, Nedoss said, and because of that, gold prices could go higher next week.
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Global LNG prices increased in both 2002 and 2007 due to the temporary shutdowns of Japanese nuclear plants.
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By comparison, Hurricane Isaac earlier this year caused a temporary 45-cent-a-gallon increase in retail gasoline prices, Mr. Daco said.
Rather, the primary reason for the higher prices has been bad weather, which has caused a temporary fall in supply.
Temporary factors, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has called high commodity prices, have eased and have allowed consumers to divert their spending away from essentials.
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Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.
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