The commodity bubble has popped??
February 13th, 2009 by Murali Venkatesh
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- Gold $255 (4/01) - $1033.90 (Mar 17) - and $681 (Oct 23)
- Silver $4.54 (1/03) - $21.44 (Mar 17) - and $9.09 (Oct 24)
- Platinum $406 (10/01) - $2308.80 (Mar 4) - and $752.10 (Oct 27)
- Copper $0.60 (11/01) - $4.26 lbs. (May 5) - and $1.25 (Dec 26)
- CRB $184 (11/01) - $618 (July 2) - and $327.50 (Dec 5), Reuters Commodity Research Bureau Index of 17 commodities.
- Oil $10 (12/98) - $147.27 (July 11) - and $32.40 (Dec 19).
- U.S. Dollar, eur:usd $0.8228 (Oct 26, 2000) to $1.6038 (July 15) - a 95% decline and $1.23 (Oct 23) up 22% in 3 month.
- Wheat from $4.12 (Apr ‘07) to $13.49 (Feb 17) - and $4.71 (Dec 5)
- Corn from $2.22 (Sep ‘06) to $7.79 (Jun 27) - and $3.05 (Dec 5)
- Soybeans from $6.00 (Oct ‘06) to $16.60 (Jun 27) - and $7.76 (Dec 5)
- Rice from $6.18 (Jul ‘05) to $24.35 (Apr 18) - and $12.60 (Jan 23 ‘09)
- US dollar - up 24.9% in 7 months:
70.80 on 17 March 2008 to 89.25 on 11/19.
- Japanese yen, jpy:usd - up 40.9% in 18 months:
$0.008087/123.6 on 11 June 2007 to $0.01149/87.0 on 12/17.
- Chinese yuan/renminbi, cny:usd - up 18.6% in 3 years:
$0.123/8.11 on 21 July 2005 to $0.146/6.82 on 10/10.
- Euro, eur:usd - down 22% in 3 months:
$1.60/.625 on Jul 15 to $1.23/.813 on Oct 23.
- British Pound, gbp:usd - down 36.4% in 14 months:
$2.11/.474 on Nov 5 2007 to $1.35/.741 on Jan 23.
- Canadian Dollar, cad:usd - down 30% in 1 year:
$1.10/.909 on Nov 5 2007 to $0.768/1.302 on Oct 28.
- Indian Rupee, inr:usd - down 28.6% in 11 months:
($0.025/39.1 on Feb 1 2008 to $0.020/50.3 on Dec 1.
- Russian Ruble, rub:usd - down 37.2% in 6 months:
$0.043/23.2 on Jul 11 2008 to $0.027/35.9 on Jan 16.
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