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By Joe Richter and Marina Sysoyeva, Bloomberg |
April 30, 2013
North American mills are sawing lumber at the fastest pace in six years after a recovering U.S. housing market, a beetle infestation in Canada and increasing Chinese demand drove the biggest price surge in two decades.
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By Justin Pugsley |
March 13, 2013
U.S. and Japanese central bank quantitative easing programs are placing China between a rock and a hard place in which a revaluation of the Chinese yuan vs. the U.S. dollar may turn out to be the least bad solution.
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By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
March 11, 2013
Hedge funds cut bets on a commodity rally to a four-year low on signs of surplus supply in everything from coffee to zinc before Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said prices had fallen too far and investors should buy.
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By Phil Flynn |
February 25, 2013
Natural gas is popping and readers of The Energy Report know that long-term I think we have hit a major bottom, and it looks like I am not alone.
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By Phil Flynn |
February 21, 2013
Oh sure oil had a lot of reasons to break yesterday! China’s Wen Jiabao putting their breaks on the Chinese red hot housing market, OPEC raising production to aria and of course the rising fear that the Fed is getting closer to taking the punch bowel away
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By Ian Sayson and Maria Levitov, Bloomberg |
February 21, 2013
Emerging-market stocks fell the most in seven months, erasing 2013 gains after Federal Reserve minutes sparked concern the U.S. may curtail stimulus and declining commodity prices dragged producers lower.
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By Nicholas Larkin, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
Copper traders who a week ago were the most bearish in four months are now the most bullish in a year after economic reports signaled accelerating growth from China to the U.S.
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By Scott Rose, Bloomberg |
September 13, 2012
Russia’s central bank unexpectedly raised all of its policy rates by a quarter-point after inflation exceeded its target, splitting from policy makers in other major economies focused on bolstering growth.
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By Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
August 20, 2012
Speculators held positions on rising commodities near the highest in 11 months as speculation that China will act to bolster its economy and signs of improving U.S. growth boosted prices for a third consecutive week.
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By Daniel Kruger, Bloomberg |
July 30, 2012
For all the handwringing over the slowdown in the U.S. economy, the bond market shows there’s less risk of deflation now than before the Federal Reserve’s first two rounds of large-scale debt purchases.
