Showing posts with label Monetary policies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetary policies. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Commodity Prices Will Continue to Rise. Can World Economies Continue to Support That?

The upswing in resource prices continues. From a fundamental perspective this is no surprise. As the US, Japan, and Europe pursue an unremittingly loose monetary policy, credit supply to the “real” economy is more or less stagnant. Therefore a lot of capital is available for speculation.

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About the author:
Maarten Spek is a financial markets analyst at ECR Research specializing in interest-rate and currency developments within the G10 economies.