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Commodities boom
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The cost of high prices
This multimedia package tracks the boom in global commodity prices using links to live price data, interactive features, in depth reports as well as video and blog commentary.
In recent months commodities have posed their biggest monthly gains since the oil crisis of the 1970s. This rally has been driven by investors seeking refuge from rocky credit markets, rising demand for goods from emerging economies and weakness in the US dollar.
While high prices have helped mining companies and triggered a surge in merger and acquisition activity, they have hit consumers, who are paying more for energy and food, and threaten to stoke global inflationary pressure.
Related content and features
Video
Rice price hits Brick Lane
Video: East London’s popular curry houses feel the heat as costs of basic ingredients rise dramatically. One business man is considering closing one of his restaurants if prices do not stabilise.
Ethiopia stockpiles grain
Video: Javier Blas, FT commodities correspondent, reports from Addis Ababa on the impact of rocketing grain prices and speaks to Josette Sheeran of the World Food Program
In Depth
Oil
Soaring demand and constrained supply has driven up the price of oil but a weakening global economy could reverse this trend
Rising food costs
Tight supplies, changing weather patterns and rising demand in emerging economies have all contributed to rising food prices, pointing to long-term, structural change
Gold
As the price of gold hits an all-time high there is a view that rising inflation and a weak US dollar and private investment in the metal could push it even higher
