Sentences with phrase «speculation by commodity»

Coffee is a commodity just like gas or cotton, so its future value is under constant speculation by commodity traders and coffee buyers alike.

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The Dodd - Frank financial reform law, passed by Washington in the wake of the financial crisis, does call on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to clamp down on excessive speculation in futures markets.

«There has been some speculation that the recent increase in European butter prices may have been driven by expectations that Russia could be looking for some additional butter,» Bailey says in a weekly commodity report on the market.

Although there is no consensus on the actual impact of «speculation» on prices, the G20 and the European Union have since been trying to stabilise prices by increasing transparency and reducing the financialisation of commodity markets.

The latest downturn in China's highly leveraged, speculation - prone market has provided that reason, sparking fears about broader - based emerging market instability and global growth headwinds, as evidenced by tumbling commodity prices.

Some works, like the one by Michelangelo Consani The One Straw Revolution (2015), show how today the capitalist system has turned soil and food into commodities, into objects of global speculation.

[* In my initial query to Brown, Smil and others, I noted how Paul Krugman had migrated in the last several years toward the conclusion he made in December that rising commodity prices were driven increasingly not by speculation or other such factors but by fundamental constraints on resources in the face of fast - rising demand).

We also call for an end to land grabbing, by ensuring communities land rights are upheld and financial speculation of food commodities is reined in.

And on all other timescales, the price of energy commodities is driven by many factors, such as speculation about the political situation in oil producing economies.

Experts attributed the rapid rise in food prices to several factors including high petroleum prices, drought in Australia, a weak U.S. dollar, commodity speculation, and rising demand for grain - fed meat by China's rapidly expanding middle class.

Then from 2010 to 2011, the price of wheat doubled — fueled by a combination of extreme weather events linked to climate change, oil price spikes and intensified speculation on food commodities — impacting on Syrian wheat imports.