This points to a significant expansion in global capacity in coming years, and the possibility that recent
large commodity price increases may be partly reversed as global supply expands.
«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made
by commodity price increases,» says Munro.
The surge
in commodity prices increased the terms of trade — the ratio of the price of exported goods to the price of imported goods — in both economies, but the effect in Australia was far stronger than what we saw:
In SDR terms, the Bank's index
of commodity prices increased again in the June quarter, to be about 7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 27).
As a result, many of them are now free cash flow positive and are in a much better positon to deliver on the bottom line
when commodity prices increase.
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Commodity price increases just seem like one of the ways in which the middle class in the United States and developed Europe will lose its standard of living relative to the emerging world, which is an inevitability I think.
«The thing that always worries me about Australia is that it runs a current account deficit, and that is even after god knows how many years of the most
awesome commodity price increases you have ever seen,» Mr Buckland told The Australian Financial Review.
Coincidentally with these price fluctuations, long - only commodity index funds became popular — by one estimate investment increased from $ 90 billion in 2006 to $ 200 billion at the end of 2007,
while commodity prices increased 71 % — which raised concern as to whether these index funds caused the commodity bubble.
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The Committee also anticipates that inflation will settle, over coming quarters, at levels at or below those consistent with the Committee's dual mandate as the effects of past energy and
other commodity price increases dissipate further.
After rising strongly over the second half of 2003, the RBA Index
of Commodity Prices increased by 3.1 per cent in SDR terms over the three months to April, to be 13 1/2 per cent above its trough in May 2003 (Table 11, Graph 49).
-- it will face continued margin pressures «due to higher labor content in certain areas of manufacturing where we have temporarily dialed back automation, as well as higher material costs from recently imposed tariffs,
commodity price increases and a weaker US dollar.»
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