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Focus: Commodity prices

MANY commodity prices fell last year as the euro crisis and slowing growth in emerging markets dampened demand. American crude oil, one of the few commodities whose price rose, is now 10% more expensive after a volatile year. Oil prices … Continue reading

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Oil prices: Not that again

THE political situation with Iran has grown much more tense in recent weeks, and especially since the apparent assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. Some rich countries are now proposing tightened sanctions against Iran, and Iran continues to threaten to … Continue reading

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Oil prices: Arbitrage in action

This post has been updated.EUROPE may be falling apart, but the good news for the American economy keeps coming. In addition to improved retail sales, industrial production and industrial capacity utilisation both jumped in October, and homebuilder confidence leapt in … Continue reading

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Oil Prices: Speculators unburned

IT HAS been almost two weeks since the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced it would release 60m barrels of oil from its member governments’ reserves, apparently in response to “ongoing disruption of oil supplies from Libya”. How is that working … Continue reading

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