Recession and Environment: Why Bother?

Recession and Environment: Why Bother? December 24, 2008 at 8:51 am by Gialome · Filed under Just Delhi, environment [ ... grain prices in the local markets. The daily consumer commodities prices rose by 20 percentage points ... form $140 a barrel to less than $100 a barrel. Over next one year, hopefully, commodities, oil [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 03:21:39

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An Encouraging Economic Analysis

Here is a piece of encouraging economic analysis from the folks over at The Tycoon Report by Teeka Tiwari called 5 Bank Panic Mega-Trends. We’ve seen the CRB Index, which is an index made up of 19 different commodities, fall 30 ... daily use” commodities is like a tax rebate check for the entire planet. 2. Oil prices are down near 40 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:39:17

Philippines: Govt. subsidy program to offset rice price hikes.

This is from the daily Tribune.The price of rice in the Philippines is almost half of what it was at its peak. However as the report projecting prices notes there is less investment globally in inputs due ... in demand. As a staple, rice demand is less elastic than with many other commodities. Also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 14:40:00

Oil recovers with Dow rally

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The daily survey from motorist group price of oil on Monday reversed AAA. Prices peaked at $4 ... , have already started cutting back founder of commodities brokerage on oil use, said Cordier ... has already taken investors sold off crude futures place, and it's going to take a as stock indexes around [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 17:17:35

OPEC and Friends Want Oil Prices to Behave Like a Hot Air Balloon, Not A Bubble

Here is a line of thinking that I have heard several times recently - oil prices have increased so rapidly recently that the market has become ... investment manias that exploded, is a commodity with visible, experienced hands on the controls ... commodity that responds to even tiny differences between daily supply and daily demand. During the decades [more...]

Date: 2008-06-15 00:55:33

Above the fold

A DAILY round-up of economic news: The bailout saga continues to turn ... for oil yesterday. Traders buying October oil futures to cover earlier sales of the contract briefly ... by resurgent commodities prices and a tangled global financial situation. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 14:18:14

More daily links

The economy: Worse than it looks - Paul Krugman Yes, It Is a Recession . . . in Goods Production too.. ... - John Gapper New York Fed Makes Unusual Intervention - Real Time Economics Oil and commodities: New study says high grain prices are likely here to stay - EurekAlert Fuel inputs in the food system [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 21:07:00

China corn futures dip after week of price increases, metals keep rising

Major commodities kept an upward trend on Tuesday, with metals continuing a strong rise ... U.S. dollars a bushel on the latest trading day, equal to about 1,107 yuan a ton. In an effort ... a tonne during the week. May Copper on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose by the daily limit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:19:22

Crude Oil poised to reverse

Crude Oil had a good rally last week. WTIC rallied off December low of USD35.13 to reach an intra-day high of USD50 ... commodities, Crude Oil's downtrend seems to be intact (see Chart 1 below).Chart 1: WTIC's daily chart ... on a reversal in Crude Oil prices. When this finally happens, Oil stocks would likely to receive a big boost. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:45:00

Zimbabwe Public Hospitals to Allow For Foreign Cash Payments

Harare - Public hospitals in Zimbabwe will start accepting payment for all medical services in foreign currency; ... state-owned daily Herald, in its Saturday edition, quotes Zimbabwe's Health Minister David ... the last year. Commodities, including basics such as milk and bread, are now priced in foreign [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 07:02:00

Crude Oil Dips Beneath $70

Who would have expected such a headline on Crude Oil just five or so months ago?! ... on Wednesday.  Let’s look at the weekly and daily charts to see how this happened and what might ... to give a boost to prices, or at least stave off some of the rampant selling in the commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:38:49

31st August - Who's made a mark this week?

Tomato Tuesday by Daily Paintworkscopyright the artistsDid anybody else spot the Tomato Get Together which was going on this week amongst some of the ... that you couldn't put a price on great art. But that was before creativity became a commodity; before it became [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 10:42:00

Daily Report for Mon, Oct 27, 2008

The crisis in global equity, commodity and currency markets worsened overnight ... ) as an indicator. US equity futures have come off their earlier lows. ADDENDUM Links & Charts ... is sinking as are prices on the European bourses; the US equity markets may open with futures locked [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 10:13:05

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