With commodity prices falling fast, one hope for continued growth is oil and gas exploration.
The real may be overvalued, but with commodity prices as high as they are, it will never be cheap.
Worse, with consumer prices sticky in concert with commodity prices that are most sensitive to dollar-price movements, the beneficiaries of the money illusion tend to be the hard, unproductive assets of yesterday (think housing, art, rare stamps, and oil) that are least vulnerable to currency weakness, and which in fact do best when the unit of account is devalued.
Low natural gas prices, along with volatile commodity prices, helped keep domestic demand muted.
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But the effects of the devastating drought that is ravishing the U.S. were felt, with agricultural commodity prices causing concern in some districts.
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Oil and mining companies were hit with falling commodity prices as fears mount that the global economy will stall due to weak demand from developed economies.
But with low commodity prices and a projected trade deficit (to say nothing of Mr Yeltsin's unorthodox cabinet reshuffles), the government could be as poor this year as it was last.
Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria, and of course, fierce global competition.
Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria (nyse: MO - news - people ), and of course, fierce global competition.
The unrest in the Middle East has a lot to do with food and commodity prices, and Fed QE policies may have a lot to do with those prices.
Food prices have fallen a real 7% since 2000 (though they are rising again with higher international commodity prices), choice has widened as some 2, 000 new products have been added to the shelves each year and most people in Britain live a short drive away from at least one large shop.
With commodity and energy prices stabilized, together with effective monetary tightening policy, the CPI could drop by 1-1.5% to 5-5.5% in early 2012.
Several companies with exposure to commodity prices, particularly food, are vulnerable, as Starbucks, Green Mountain Coffee, and have warned of rising cost pressures.
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Thanks to fracking, the United States can become not energy independent of the rest of the world (oil will still a global commodity with prices set on the world market) but definitely more energy secure.
With the collapse in commodity prices, inflation mirrors the cellophane man, near invisible.
The other two schools of thought take a much less positive view, seeing the developing countries as playing a central part in forcing up commodity prices with adverse effects across much of the rich world.
With farm incomes high and commodity prices at record peaks, this season looked ripe for reform.
Increased volatility has come along with a marked increase in commodity prices, particularly in the energy complex.
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With world growth softening and commodity prices off their peaks, inflation in every region of the world will decline through 2012.
As global demand falters with a global recession, commodity prices will fall.
One hundred million people in the world may soon be short of food, with the spike in some commodity prices in part to blame.
While it appears like a distant possibility, high commodity prices coupled with ultra-loose monetary policy and a cold economy could, in a very bad scenario, lead to stagflation.
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When asked whether the Fed policies are responsible for rising commodity prices, Chairman Bernanke replied that rising commodity prices have to do more with rising demand coming from fast growing emerging markets rather than from Fed policies.
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Falling oil and commodity prices, coupled with a rising dollar, are beginning to manifest themselves.
Traditional thought has held that commodity prices all correlate with oil.
Investors have to hedge their bets against all three outcomes, which explains the apparently contradictory combination of rising equity and commodity prices, along with low bond yields.
Commodity prices became highly correlated with stock prices during the worst period of the financial crisis and they both collapsed together.
And what better first signs can you have than for the Fed Chairman to announce he wants to see more inflation combined with the market surge in gold and commodity prices?
With oil included, rising commodity and energy prices are behind the inflation worries in Europe, even though Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke says that inflation is not a threat to the U.S. economy at this time.
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