Commodity Prices

Oil Prices Were Manipulated, U.S. Government Commission Charges

Janet Ritz | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: U.S. Economy, New York Mercantile Exchange, Crude Oil Prices, The Environmentalist, Commodity Prices, Heating Oil Prices, Green, Commodities Speculation, Green Business, Gasoline Futures, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business, Investigation, Cftc, Oil Price Manipulation Investigation, Corporate Crime, Politics, Gasoline Prices, Oil, Oil Prices, Optiver Holding, Green News
Janet Ritz

The agency charged with "ensuring the integrity of the futures & options market," has accused Optiver Holding of manipulating the prices of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline futures on the NY Mercantile Exchange.

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Steel Prices Nearly Doubled In Past Year

Financial Times | Chris Flood | Posted 04.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Price of Steel, Steel Prices, Steel, Commodity Prices, Business News

Steel prices have almost doubled in the past year as steelmakers have passed big increases in the costs of iron ore and coking coal on to consumers. ...

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Is This The End Of Cheap Food?

Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: High Food Prices, World Food Prices, Commodity Prices, Food Crisis, Food Prices, Cheap Food, Food Shortage, Hunger, Business News

A sharp spike in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other staples has sparked riots in Mexico and Egypt, marches by hungry children in Yemen and the spe...

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Food Riots Skyrocket, World Leaders Have No Solutions

Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Higher Prices, Finance Ministers, Food Shortages, Food Riots, Robert Zoellick, Commodity Prices, World Bank, Jacques Edouard Alexis, Bio-Fuels, Haiti, Corn-Based Ethanol, Global Food Prices, Ethanol, Global Financial Crisis, Surging Prices, Global Riots, Business News

Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...

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Why Commodities Will Struggle in 2008

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Speculators, Commodities, Finance, Commodities Market, Commodity Prices, Dollar Weakness, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

It seems fair to say that most experts expect elevated volatility to continue in 2008, arising from three factors: monetary policy, fiscal policy and continued weakness in the financials sector.

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Commoditizing the Decoupling Theory

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Commodity Prices, Feedback Loop, Recession Fears, Recession, U.S. Recession, Theory of Decoupling, Emerging Markets, Jim Rogers, Decoupling, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

Conventional wisdom suggests that when the U.S. economy sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.

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