While the year 2022 was characterized by a sharp increase in commodity prices, last year already brought a reduction. For example, electricity prices, which were hovering around 300 euros per megawatt hour on the stock market a year ago, are now at 93 euros, and gas and coal are also becoming cheaper. The price of … Read more
Completely unpredictable and extremely changeable weather threatens to make breakfast more expensive in the world. The price of cocoa is a symbol of harsh price blows, which rose by almost eighty percent over the last year on the global market, becoming the fastest growing commodity on the markets in the past twelve months. At the … Read more
Al-Marsad Newspaper: The Statistics Authority revealed an increase in the prices of local flour and rice in the local market during the month of July. The report on the average prices of goods and services issued by the authority stated that the local brown wheat flour (1 kg) recorded a price of 3.16 riyals, up … Read more
A recent analysis by KiwiSaver provider Mercer revealed that private equity has outperformed other asset classes over the past decade, with an average return of 16.4%. This was achieved through long-term investment in private equity funds or firms like Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Mercer’s Chief Investment Officer, Padraig Brown, emphasized that private equity is increasingly … Read more
The Bloomberg Commodity Index, which maps the price development of the 24 most traded commodities, rose 22 percent in response to the war. On the first anniversary of the conflict, however, it is in the red by five percent. Price development was described by XTB analyst Jiří Tyleček. “There are several factors behind the decline. … Read more
Copper prices are falling sharply on global markets and the key production metal has had its worst week this year. The last time the price of copper fell this significantly was in 2008. Coincidence? No, according to Bloomberg, the current moves in copper represent the strongest confirmation yet of an impending recession and a general … Read more
You can also listen to the article in audio version. – All populist politicians, and so far even many economists, fix their eyes on inflation, let themselves be carried away by news about the rise in the price of this or that, about long delivery times, complicated transport or the unavailability of a specific product. … Read more
Gold is portrayed as a safe haven in times of uncertainty and inflation in particular. This is how retailers offer it to small clients as well. In the last quarter, the price of gold fell by more than five percent. That cryptocurrencies are decliningwhen the world is gripped by nervousness from rising prices and interest … Read more
In a world that calls for more oil, the Southwest Texas region of the United States is one of the few places where production capacity can be rapidly increased. Although the price of this key raw material is currently above one hundred dollars per barrel, shale oil miners are slowing down. – For most of … Read more
The embargo on coal imports from Russia will not harm the Czech economy. Only less than seven percent of imported hard coal is from Russia, the Czechia practically does not import brown coal. Russia is the fourth largest importer of hard coal to the Czech Republic. After Poland, USA and Canada. Last year, the Czech … Read more