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Coffee futures hit 10-year high on shortage fears
... could mean your morning kickstart is about to get notably more expensive, according to f ortune.com.. Arabica coffee futures on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) spiked to $236.95 this morning, the highest price since Nov. 1, 2011. Since early August, prices have jumped more than 35%. Year to date, they have more than doubled. The extreme volatility comes as supply fears surrounding top producers in Brazil and Columbia continue to escalate. Crops were severely damaged this year, due to fire, drought, and frost. And Brazil, which accounts for 40% of the world’s output of coffee, doesn’t have sufficient inventory to fill those gaps. Add in shipping constraints and the concern is even higher. (Some shipments are taking more than three times as long to ...
12/02/2021Fitch Ratings Revises Global Metals and Mining Price Assumptions
Fitch Ratings has revised its global metals and mining price assumptions, increasing short- and medium-term prices for copper, iron ore, coking coal, gold and nickel. YEREVAN, ... ... North America and other parts of Asia will offset gradually reducing steel production in China. Iron ore supply challenges in Brazil, South Africa and Ukraine support prices in the short and medium term. The revised metallurgical coal price assumptions ...
03/15/2023Prices of global agricultural commodities declined to a six-year low in June
Prices of global agricultural commodities declined to a six-year low last month, with bumper output of all products in the value ... ... which more than offset a rebound in palm oil and wheat quotations. Increasing worldwide demand for livestock feed, especially in Brazil, China and the United States, is supporting prices for coarse grains, including maize," FAO said in the report on ...
07/09/2015FAO: global food prices reach highest level since 2014
Global food prices rose in January for the eighth consecutive month, led by cereals, vegetable oils and sugar, according to the Food and Agriculture ... ... Federation and Thailand, as well as drier-than-normal weather conditions in South America. Rising crude oil prices and a stronger Brazilian Real also provided support to international sugar prices. The FAO Dairy Price Index increased by 1.6 percent, underpinned ...
02/04/2021Chicken meat, sugar and flour prices have gone up in Armenia in 2021
Chicken meat, sugar and flour prices have gone up in Armenia in 2021, while the prices for butter and vegetable oil have gone down, the chairman of the State ... ... meat market ‘persist. Even the application of quotas has not helped. Armenia imports the bulk of chicken meat from Ukraine, Brazil and USA. Meat imports have decreased all over the world," he noted. Regarding the sugar market, Gevorgyan said the ...
12/28/2021Bloomberg singles out Russia as best among BRICS countries for investment in 2015
... above $55 a barrel and a cease-fire is holding, by and large, in eastern Ukraine since Valentine’s Day. A measure of expected price swings, as signaled by options prices, has more than halved to 28 percent, the steepest drop since at least 2006, the earliest ... ... China’s 0.6, according to the data. That was also the best gain in the BRICS universe that includes the two countries, and Brazil, India and South Africa. Even after the first-half rally, Russian stocks are valued at less than half of their BRICS peers....
07/20/2015OECD cuts global growth forecast for 2015
... estimates from 3.1 percent and 3.8 percent in June, citing primarily a slowdown in emerging market economies like China and Brazil. "Global growth prospects have weakened slightly and become less clear in recent months," OECD chief economist ... ... bloc should be growing as much as a full percentage point faster, Mann said, with a weak euro and low interest rates and oil prices in its favor. It was not because it remained too burdened by its debts, she said. The euro zone's priority should be repairing ...
09/16/2015Global economic prospects to improve in 2015, but divergent trends pose downside risks, says WB
... another disappointing year in 2014, developing countries should see an uptick in growth this year, boosted in part by soft oil prices, a stronger U.S. economy, continued low global interest rates, and receding domestic headwinds in several large emerging ... ... where growth is expected to accelerate to 6.4 percent this year (from 5.6 percent in 2014), rising to 7 percent in 2016-17. In Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey, the fall in oil prices will help lower inflation and reduce current account deficits,...
01/14/2015High air ticket prices impede tourism development in Armenia :U.S. Ambassador
Air price tickets are high in Armenia, and small number of direct flights hinders tourism development and flow to the republic even ... ... has brought 28 leading tourism lawyers from across the world to the Armenian capital, including experts from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. It is also ...
04/19/2013Launch of sugar plant in Armenia in may 2010 will provide the consumption of sugar in the country –ministry of agriculture
... exported to Georgia, North regions of Iran and Russia. If the plant works in full capacity, it will produce 220 thousand tons of white sugar of European quality annually. The raw material for the plant will be imported from South America, mainly from Brazil, as well as produced locally which will allow to provide 20 thousand local employees with work. In May the first production will be produced and its price will be lower than imported sugar but he could not mention the exact price. Construction of the plant in Akhuryan was started in 2006. Owner of the plant is Samvel Aleksanyan, Armenian entrepreneur, Deputy of National Assembly of Armenia who has ...
12/08/2009Fitch Ratings: oil price shock would hit 2024 growth and boost inflation
Higher-than-expected oil prices in a scenario where the Middle East conflict disrupts oil supply would cause lower economic growth and higher inflation,... ... impacts among the main emerging market countries would be in South Africa and Turkiye (0.7pp). Russia, and to a much lesser extent Brazil, would see a positive impact due to the important role of oil production in these economies. Using the aggregate impact ...
11/13/2023China’s lavishness may trigger another recession
... they all have common symptoms that make it possible to forecast them – a significant slowdown in economic growth, collapse of price bubbles at asset markets, the widening current account and budget deficit, high debt ratio, the dwindling inflow of capital ... ... taken into account in statistical reports. It should be correct to include currency swap agreements, which are so important to Brazil and Argentina, in the list. (By the way, this shows the importance of looking trough net, not gross monetary reserves)....
10/13/2015Armenia drops ten notches in Travel & Tourism Competitiveness report 2015
... health care, 71st in terms of quality of human resources, 73rd in terms of tourism services infrastructure, 77th in terms of price affordability, 83rd in terms of international openness, 92nd in terms of aviation infrastructure and 99th in terms of cultural ... ... Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Japan and Canada complete the top 10. Of the large emerging markets, China (17th) and Brazil (28th) made it into the top 30, whereas Russia, South Africa and India ranked 45th, 48th and 52nd, respectively Armenia's ...
05/08/2015Moody’s does not expect Russian economy to grow in 2015
... have driven a downward revision in Moody's 2015 forecasts for many countries and regions, including the euro area, Japan and Brazil. In contrast, Moody's expects sustained robust growth in the US, UK and India over the next two years," Moody's asserts ... ... The central bank has also lowered its economic growth outlook for 2015 to zero. It says the GDP may fall by 43.5%-4% if oil price plummets to $60.-0-
11/10/2014Russian ruble should be used more widely as a financial instrument in Armenia – Russia’s Deputy Minister of Economic Development
... I would like to mention agricultural machinery. In principle, Russian agricultural machines are very attractive in terms of price and quality. The question is that we can not offer normal leasing (financial) leverages. If we find them, coupled with more ... ... (The anti-dumping duty and a provisional duty was imposed in September 2009 for aluminum foil imported into EU from Armenia, Brazil and China. In December 2009, Rusal Armenal filed an application to the General Court of the EU to annul the EU council’s ...
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