definations for price volatility and globalization?
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What Is Price Volatility?\n \n\nThe term “price volatility” is used to describe price fluctuations of a commodity. Volatility is measured by the day-to-day percentage difference in the price of the commodity. The degree of variation, not the level of prices, defines a volatile market. Since price is a function of supply and demand, it follows that volatility is a result of the underlying supply and demand characteristics of the market. Therefore, high levels of volatility reflect extraordinary characteristics of supply and/or demand\n\nGlobalization\n\nThe International Monetary Fund defines globalization as “the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services, free international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology”. Meanwhile, The International Forum on Globalization defines it as “the present worldwide drive toward a globalized economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national governments.
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1) Supply and Demand\n2) Yes\n\nTop 3 Answerer in Business & Finance. (Vote for me)
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According to Global Insight:\n\n"modest gain of 3.2% in 2004 ... likely to post a 12.7% gain in 2005. ...outlook for 2006 calls for deceleration ... to a modest 5.5%. [Based on] office and industrial construction ... and supply shortages ... in some areas..." \n\n"...prices are likely to gain strength through the first half of 2006 [due to rebuilding in the Gulf Coast]. ...prices are expected to ease slightly by the end of 2006."
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What you are looking for is the Silk Futures and Derivatives market.  Data for this market can be found here:\nhttp://www.econstats.com/fut/xj_yok_ew3.htm\n\nHope this helps!
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Wow you are a big brave guy.  You write jabs at people and end your question before anyone can respond to it.  \n\nI guess the micro pen joke is actually not a joke at all.  And just like a typical liberal when you cannot logically prove your thesis you start hurling insults to make up for your lack of intellect.\n\nWell I will post my response here and answer this question.\n\nHow many economic classes have you taken?  I can definitely see not many.  Currency deflation is an economic strategy.  Did you know Japan has purposely deflated it's currency five time in the last 20 years?  Last time I checked Japan is the second largest economy in world.\n\nA weaker currency can be a bad thing, but not in the case of the US.  Our largest trading partners have their currency pegged to ours.  The commodities Americans need for everyday use are traded in dollars not foreign currencies, so the price of these good does not increase just because the dollar decreases.\n\nLet me give you a simple, easy macroeconomic example.  I will use the Euro and Microsoft.  The Euro is trading higher than the dollar, and next year Microsoft plans to release Vista.  This mean two things either Microsoft can sell Vista at a cheaper price meaning more Europeans will buy copies then they would have previously, which means that Microsoft will have even more revenue and expand the US economy.  Or the more likely scenario is that Microsoft will keep the price of Vista the same, since they probably figure they will sell just as many copies either way.  If they sell Vista at the same price they planned to sell it for two years ago, then since the Euro is worth more against the dollar, Microsoft will generate more revenue; and again expand the US economy.\n\nNow multiply this example by hundreds of tech companies, and thousands of other companies. The result is large economic expansion.\n\nNow, long term, meaning if the dollar stays low for 20, 30, or 40 years, there may be dire consequences.  Global commodity exchange markets could stop standardizing on the dollar, etc.  But that most likely will not happen, as the US economy grows because of the weaker dollar, the dollar will automatically increase in value.\n\nWhy don't you educate yourself before you make such asinine comments.  If just makes you look like a fool.\n\nNow to answer this question.\n\nWarming and cooling trends on the earth are cyclical and have nothing to do with the actions of human beings.\n\nIn fact, the current CO2 level is the lowest it has been in the entire geologic history of the earth.  In fact, grasses only evolved and started to flourish because they require less carbon dioxide than other plant life.  Likewise, many plant species became extinct because the level of carbon dioxide has decreased so dramatically.\n\n-------\nJake F. I cannot believe how stupid you are about to look.  So, the atmospheric carbon dioxide level today is the highest it has ever been ever, huh?\n\nWell, let's take a look at mid-Cretaceous period 120 to 90 Million years ago. During that period of geologic history the carbon dioxide levels where AT LEAST 2 to 4 times higher than they are today.  And the levels were even higher before the Cretaceous period.  \n\nRead it for yourself on the NOAA website, which is not some nameless site; but the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration!\n\nhttp://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/cretaceous.html\n\n\nI wish I could see the look on your face, and that face would be the face of the dumbest person on earth!\n\nOuch!  Burned toast!!\n\nRemember the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and has gone through numerous climate changes.  When people talk about global warming they are only looking at the past 100-200 years or maybe the past 1000 years of time, which isn't even one one-trillionth the amount of time the earth has existed.\n\nAnd micro pen, I do not care about making personal comments to you.  I would rather make them publicly, as far as the
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I've been investing a lot in foreign stocks.  Gold is obviously a great hedge against falling currency values, but it isn't a productive investment.  It may go up in price, but it doesn't grow in the way businesses can.  The same can be said for investing in foreign currencies.  You can hedge against the dollar with them, but there's no growth in currencies either.  \n\nIf you think it's only the dollar that will be falling (and not all currencies in a worldwide inflation), then investing overseas is the way to go.  And if you want to preserve the opportunity for growth in addition to simple hedging, buy stocks in those markets that you feel are safe.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
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This question belongs to 'Economics'. \nThe answer is 'no' because it may lead to market failure.
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Please refer to :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalisation\nYou'll find enough answers !
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Gold is limited in this country.  So the price is control.   They have got this all down to a science if the price goes down for gold they import or mine less of it.   So I believe the price of gold will reach a limited range and go up and down between that.   No, constant drop or constant gain.
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I stopped investing in US dollar denominated assets some time ago. As someone in the oil business I have been expecting the oil trade to eventually begin using the Euro, and believe that in effect it already has. I think that oil has no chance of any significant price decrease until the dollar strengthens proportionally. With the twin deficits as large as they are there is little chance of this. \n\nI used to actively trade the Forex, but changed my strategy to hold foreign securities instead, and have somewhat concentrated on Canada, generally in the energy sector. Both the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar are generally commodity driven and I have benefitted from that move. Real estate has been the only asset in the US I was willing to hold, and I think that price increase has been related to the falling US dollar as well. \n\nKeep in mind that the US is still the largest buyer of oil in the world, so even if the Euro-oil-trade were to become widespread, it would not change a large portion of the world oil market. Since the Forex is a trillion dollar a day market, it seems unlikely that changing the currency that half of the world’s oil is priced and traded in would have a large effect on the value of the US dollar. I do think it would have a further negative impact on the dollar, but am skeptical of claims that it would be catastrophic. \n\nThere has also been some interesting news recently about petro-dollars being converted to Euros. U.A.E. apparently as a quiet reaction to all the hoopla over the ports deal is switching at least 10% of its holdings away from the US dollar, and it looks like they might not be buying any more Boeing jets. \nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/03/14/cnuae14.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/03/14/ixcity.html
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Inflation/Deflation, Supply/demand and umm the crazy graphs and curves of demand, supply etc
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People speculate China, but I would suggest emerging market in general.  This way you're not putting all eggs in one basket.
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Here ya go:\n\nhttp://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=commodities&cc=US&refredir=1&nopu=7M3QB%2BHE0y6hTGQhlEp7%2FVKaIh%2FBzoP%2BnsaIR%2FdsdTWnEvJInj968IWMQSybT%2BSR
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Well, actually it would depend on the rates of increase.  Theoretically, if demand and supply increase at matching rates, then the price should remain pretty stable.  This is assuming demand = 1 and supply = 1.  If demand increases at 1 and supply increases at 2, then the price might go down, for example.  (This also does not take into account marketing strategies and other variables!)
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Any equation explaning the relationship between two or more observations (or data points) could be called a regression. It's really an extrapolation of the underlying line (or non-linear relationship) that explains the variance.\n\nPerhaps you could do a simple one- pick a stock and use the closing price over a period (say 3 weeks, 15 observations). Then try to come up with a formula to explain the pattern.\n\nActually, that one is kind of hard without stats software. But there are others- such as average temperatures in a given area...
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Some people think that markets, including foreign exchange futures, behave like natural phenomenon, and these people are always looking for analogies to the natural sciences to use to help them decide what to do in the marketplace.\n\nOne theory is that the price of a currency will rise to 1.618 times its value before it falls to 0.618 times that value, and it will do so, repeatedly, at roughly the same time interval. Those numbers are the ratio between two consecutive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence, and the ratio of the ratio between two consecutive numbers in the sequence.\n\nI think it's just plain silly, but speculators often have very little to go on and really want to believe they've found some sort of a law of currency value fluctuations.\n\nIf you'd like to hear something a little more sensible about how to trade in currencies, and how the natural sciences really don't apply to market economies, you might want to check out some books by George Soros.