Chile, interest rates, inflation, Bachelet and the central bank
Bachelet proves she can maintain her composure and smile even in the most difficult of circumstancesPresident Bachelet gave a very interesting ... goes). Anyhow, here are a few direct quotes from Bachelet in that interview after being subjected ... are net commodity exporters thus the drop in world commods prices is a net negative. However [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 15:15:00
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Angry Jobless Indians, Social Contracts
Allow me to highlight some of the scary stuff below…Indian Exporters May Cut 10 Million Jobs on Recession (Update2) ... and commodity prices slide, the World Bank said on Dec. 9. World trade volumes will probably contract next year by 2.1 percent, hampered by exchange rate volatility and flagging import demand.”Probably [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:00:00
Why agri-commodity policies need a revamp
As a result of the downturn in commodity prices across the world, and the easing of supply constraints on most commodities because of good domestic production, there is hardly any incentive for over-stocking by trade or bulk consumers of agri-commodities. Also [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 17:37:36
Incoming Recession
When the United States economy started to go spiraling down, I immediately thought that its effects would soon be felt here in our country ... . Experts have been saying that we will start to feel that this 2009 as prices of commodities and services in the world market will start to go up. Production of goods ... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 12:48:42
Deals of the Day: Is BCE the Next Busted Buyout?
Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... to provide labor, parts, repairs, upgrades, improvements, service, software and equipment in a long ... company Rio Tinto, saying the recent fall in commodity prices and worsening world economy made [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:47:54
Rising sea levels ‘could spark conflict over energy and food reserves’
From Telegraph UK A report revealed “environmental stress” had increased the risk of conflicts over food and resources in the region ... to the escalating fight for the world’s natural resources, including an increasingly precious commodity – dry ... nations. High global oil and commodity prices, the biofuels boom and the economic downturn [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 10:23:37
Secondary Sources: Paulson, Resilent Economy, Commodity Prices
A roundup of economic news from around the Web. Paulson’s Itchy Trigger Finger: ... next year. With growth slowing in many parts of the world, including Europe, commodity prices ought [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 17:46:00
Asian Stocks Fall as Manufacturing Declines; Woodside, JFE Drop
BLOOMBERG Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks tumbled, extending a global rout, as a deepening world recession drove down commodity prices and heightened concern company earnings will collapse as manufacturing shrinks. JFE [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 04:03:30
** Satyam Fiasco
As of now we all are facing the effects of recession all over the world. Hike in prices of basic commodities, natural disasters, more demand for fuel, share markets ... , investors, share holders and so on. Due to Satyam Fiasco share markets are got affected a lot [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 09:03:00
Joy Global (JOYG) Beats on Earnings; Guides Down for 2009
Joy Global (JOYG) and Bucryus (BUCY) are two companies we want to keep on eye as they are literally (and figuratively) ... is the lack of investment in commodities that these low prices and lack of credit availability are producing ... world of shortages and the next leg of a commodities super cycle coming down the pike. Once foreign [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 21:00:00
The New Commodity Bull
Just when the central banks of the world are deluding themselves with the idea that inflation is under control, commodity prices are surging much higher once again.Soybeans (other grains have similar charts) - up 30% over the past monthCrude Oil - up 40% in 7 trading sessions. Crude has touched $50/barrel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 11:14:00
Commodities Reprieve Coming to an End
A guest post from Frank Shump. Frank is a veteran from the financial services industry, and currently authors a blog called Thefinancecastle ... in the near future, as some oil fields out there aren’t nearly as cost effective at these prices ... are out there on the future of other commodities. The World Bank, for example, believes that the global [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 16:54:45
Energy/Credit/Currency Crisis Open Thread
In what feels like the middle of a multi-round heavyweight bout, the world financial markets continue to be buffeted tonight, ... energy and commodities prices and considerably less confidence in the overall system than in weeks ... banks. And since this liquidity goes only to banks and major broker-dealers, the rest of the shadow [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 13:50:22
Unrest in Russia
Unrest in Russia Gordon G. Chang - 12.19.2008 - 2:12 PM Russians are taking to the streets as global energy prices decline and their country’s ... by high commodity prices to build a more sustainable economy. So Russia rode the energy wave ... exchange reserves-the third largest in the world-to defend a rapidly depreciating currency [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 19:12:49
Reading List: The Forgotten Man
Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-093642-6 ... commodity prices bankrupted millions of farmers, and world trade and credit markets froze, exporting [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 23:36:05
Jim Hamiton Listens to Janet Yellen of the SF Fed on Risks for the U.S. Economy
Janet: Econbrowser: Janet Yellen on risks and prospects for the U.S ... high... inventories of unsold homes remain at elevated levels.... futures market for house prices ... in developing countries has boosted their appetite for commodities... since 2000, world demand for oil [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 18:43:00
One Upside To The Economic Crisis: Cheap Gas
As the US dollar crashes and the financial markets around the world start to implode, we may see an happy side effect: cheap gas ... prices to several other measures, and concluded that crude oil is the most overpriced commodity ... higher than any other commodity. Relative to per capita income, oil prices would have to fall [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 19:55:40
1 Penny = 1 Billion Dollars
Taking a look at these humorous cartoons about how high gas prices were this summer, ... ) The global recession has caused significant demand destruction of all commodities around the world. Arguably ... . Photo Credit: jackslife Advertisement: Real Estate Investing Forums Discuss real estate, network [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 19:44:34
Truth or Consequences
Of those reading this website in the early days, many expected that by 2008 the world would begin to look like a different place ... in stealth mode: supply side investments are being crimped due to low commodity prices, and investment ... strapped, but gasoline at under $2 a gallon, (arguably the scarcest input into societies' future - see [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 16:38:50
Madoff's "Woman on Wall St."
NYTimes reports:VIENNA — With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, ... last week.Embarrassment from investing heavily with Mr. Madoff could explain wanting to disappear from public view ... . (Russia’s richest men have been especially strapped as commodity prices and their stock [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 08:40:00
Oil's Well That Ends Well?
I have mentioned a couple of crazy notions on Urban Digs regarding a slowing world economy and increased unemployment actually being a positive for ... broker of mine, who had previously been an ATF officer. He used to say "just because I'm paranoid doesn't ... in the commodity price decline where the question of short-term correction versus long-term [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 15:50:20
Lottery System Development
I've been working on a lottery system based on intuition rather than the more common strategy of analaysing patterns or distributions in historical ... out by 2,3,4,...49 (use the modulus operator when the number goes above 49).From the world of trading ... can be used to forecast future price levels in many products, ranging from currencies to commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 11:34:00
Decoupling to world: "I'm still not dead yet!"
The last time that some version of the title you see above appeared in these pages was way back in November, ... to cheap capital and high commodity prices. All three props have now collapsed. In particular, as America’ ... . This could reduce emerging economies’ future growth rates [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 00:17:06
Honda Japan Confirms new A-Segment Hatchback with Sneak Peak of Future Products
This looks like it will pertain mostly to other parts of the world, ... and rising raw material prices. With so many people flocking to commodity-investment in the futures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 15:39:00
Why should central banks cut interest rates?
Central banks around the world are whacking interest rates at a breakneck clip ... up the economy at a time when commodity prices are plummeting, making inflation less of a concern ... ) for a 'future good' (an IOU -money that can be used later). Because people will always prefer having a good [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 16:22:48
NEWS WIRE: Pakistan: The Case of Microfinance in the Post Crisis World
Source: The Nation. Original news wire here. Pakistan, ... caused by rising energy and commodity prices. The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) which measures a basket [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 05:01:46
Japan, Australia Inject $11 Billion to Combat Rising Money Market Rates
Even with Japan's banks largely on the sidelines in the international housing bubble (US subprime exposure is a mere $8 billion) ... at ICAP Australia Ltd., part of the world's largest inter-bank broker. ``We've been living ... sheets as share and commodity prices plunge after governments in Europe and the U.S. arranged rescues [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 03:24:42
The World Isn’t Flat
Spengler paints an unpretty picture of the current crisis extended under an Obama presidency ... economic superpowers of the future went flying, like children on skates holding onto the back of truck ... consumer, and Asian exports crash, taking commodity prices along with them. The financial crash [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 16:23:46
Sunday morning links
#fullpost{display:inline;}TOP STORIESThe End of the Financial World as We Know It - NY TimesEvans says Fed needs to mimic below-zero rates - ... assistance - ReutersMARKETS/INVESTINGA year after $100, oil prices cut in half - SF Gate'Silver prices will follow Gold in 2009' - Commodity OnlinePeter Bernstein’s biggest worry? The dollar - Implode [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 14:42:00
The Nausea Express
The G-7 world, the club of "developed" western nations plus Japan, has commenced an ordeal of suddenly waking up much poorer ... of everything are in flux -- stocks, bond values and yields, commodity prices, most especially currencies [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 13:28:17
The world economy won't begin to recover until late next year, and even then the anticipated recovery will be " ... in commodity prices. Indeed, the financial crisis that erupted in August 2007 after the collapse [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 19:17:59
How governments have screwed up commodities prices
By TigerHawk at 10/12/2008 08:30:00 AM The just-published October 11th issue of The Economist has a timely survey on the world economy, and I recommend it as a great way to get your arms around what is going on. Drop by your local bookstore and read the whole thing [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 12:30:00
MORE ON ALCOA’S MASS LAYOFF OF 15,000 STEELWORKERS
from the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE:Alcoa lays off 15,000, US economy moves toward depressionBy Tom Eley 7 January 2009Less than one week into 2009, ... shrank and commodity prices fell. These trends, however, have only continued, and Alcoa clearly [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 13:32:34
World markets open '09 on optimistic note
World markets open '09 on optimistic note by The Associated Press Friday January 02, 2009, 5:32 AM World stock markets opened 2009 on a high note, with Hong Kong's index up more than 4 percent, as investors shrugged off more dreary economic news ... licenses, and commodity companies were lifted by stronger prices for raw materials. European [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 11:03:53
Friday morning links
#fullpost{display:inline;}TOP STORIESManufacturing Cools Around the World - NY TimesRussia, ... TodayAfter worst year ever, commodities may lag recovery - Reuters2008 Year Review and Outlook For 2009 ... brightly - APUK house prices suffered record drop in 2008 - TelegraphNew year nightmare brings spectre [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:40:00
Glencore considers debt buy-back
Glencore, the world’s largest commodities trader, is considering a debt buy-back after S&P downgraded its credit rating one notch to triple B minus, citing weak metals prices and the falling [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 05:15:28
Tidbits from the World of Carbon Emissions Trading
| Sourced From Alpha Journal | To be sure, the near-term prospects for carbon emissions trading are bleak ... emissions, is a sharp decline in the price of various fossil energy commodities ... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 06:14:56
Rigour? In a blog?
Brad DeLong has an impressively clear (although, or perhaps because, a bit technical) piece on risk appetite and fundamental values of assets ... of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities ... for the limited amount of savings capital available in the world? If I, as a productively investing busin [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 03:23:44
DrumBeat: August 18, 2008
Schools scramble as tougher times hit WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harder times and higher fuel prices are following kids back to school this fall ... This Is a Correction, Not the End of the Commodity Bull Market Part I Every single day, the world's [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 13:50:02
In The News Today
Dear CIGAs, There is absolutely no question that the price of gold will reach $1200, $1650 and then continue onward to Alf’s numbers ... , according to the median forecast of 20 analysts, traders and investors surveyed by Bloomberg ... crisis since World War II. The metal was one of only four commodities to rise when the Reuters [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 15:24:36
The IMF's Outlook
From Chapter 1 of the IMF World Economic Outlook, released today: ... . In this context, elevated rates of headline inflation should recede quickly, provided oil prices stay at or below ... below trend, although some still face significant inflation pressure even with more stable commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 17:07:51
Speculators are Part of the Market
In a July 21, 2008 column in the Jewish World Review with a shouting headline of STOP OIL SPECULATION NOW! ... trade the right to specified quantities of a specified commodity to be delivered at some point ... to deliver a barrel of crude petroleum on December 1, 2016 at a price of $150. Traders who believe the price [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 22:30:22
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