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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.
Earlier in the year commodities have posed their biggest monthly gains since the oil crisis of the 1970s. This rally was driven by investors seeking refuge from rocky credit markets, rising demand for goods from emerging economies and weakness in the US dollar.
In recent weeks this trend has begun to reverse, with commodity prices suffering their biggest montly fall in 28 years.
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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
Opec is more optimistic now about the state of the global economy and the oil market. Abdalla El-Badri, Opec secretary-general, can see “light at the end of the tunnel” as the cartel bets on economic recovery boosting oil prices to $75-$80 a barrel
Global food crisis
Tight supplies, changing weather patterns and rising demand in emerging economies have all contributed to rising food prices and concerns about food security
Gold
Having broken the $1,000 barrier the price of gold has since fallen, despite volatile stock markets
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