B. Global diversification and commodity market

Today, a deepening global divide sets the slow growing US against many emerging market economies and commodity producing countries.

Emerging market demand has pushed up commodity prices.

The Global Implications of Falling Commodity Prices

After all, energy is a global commodity.

Several developing countries have benefited greatly from increased commodity market transparency.

For many commodity dependent developing countries, the negative impact of commodity finance related market entry barriers needed to be addressed.

At the international level, strategic information on commodity sectors enhances global transparency and improves commodity strategies and policies.

Market Manipulation Goes Global

Support commodity market development actions that assist developing countries, in particular least developed countries (LDCs), and countries with economies in transition, to function effectively in a liberalized global economy.

Projects in this field include physical market development enhancement of market infrastructure facilitation of private sector initiatives and commodity price risk management.

This type of gap, which exists in most developing countries, results from market failures, mainly asymmetries in accessing key commodity market information.

Apart from commodity exports, it has little to offer to the global economy.

Migrant workers, however, are more than a commodity to be traded in the international market place.

UNCTAD, having initiated pioneering work connecting market analysis with innovative tools to gather and disseminate strategic information and empower the stakeholders along commodity chains, has emerged as a key agency providing commodity information, market intelligence and knowledge management.

The current instability of global commodity markets and the sharp drop in commodity prices was thus a source of grave concern to those countries.

The Commission, under agenda item 3, would examine how access to commodity trade finance affected the competitiveness and market entry capacities of developing countries, especially commodity dependent ones.

An alternative for some commodity exporters is to hedge their risk by selling on the futures market.

Thus, the market also attracts investors who are not interested in the commodity, but in speculative gain.

A great portion of the resources have been provided particularly for vertical diversification and commodity market expansion.

Given the important role that commodity futures play for many market participants, regulatory measures should aim at enhancing confidence in the functioning of the market.

Today's commercial markets worldwide, global commercial launch market?

But this neglects global inflation driven by rising commodity prices, which has been increasingly evident.

China s 4 trillion stimulus package, unveiled in November 2008, restored confidence in global commodity markets.

And emerging markets will suffer once the US contraction and global slowdown undermines commodity prices.

The Conference will also deal with issues related to commodity prices and global trade negotiations.

They argue that traders of commodity futures merely react to price signals that ultimately depend on market fundamentals.

Trade gains fell below expectations in many key commodity areas, and Africa suffered a decline in market share.

(a) Improve market efficiency through access to information about commodity prices and availability, product standards, consumer standards, non tariff barriers and the identification of new market opportunities.

Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

That is a surprising proposition, given that commodity bonds have an obvious latent market, rooted in real economic fundamentals.

Furthermore, ample worldwide liquidity and the rise of other commodity prices induced market speculators to buy into oil futures.

In fact, during the 1980s Africa lost market shares in the total primary commodity exports of all developing countries.

Cuba's prior 35 supply of the world's export market for sugar has declined to 10 due to a variety of factors, including a global sugar commodity price drop that made Cuba less competitive on world markets.

They noted that the global economy had witnessed sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment in some of the industrialized countries and depressed commodity prices in the international market, with the notable exceptions of coffee and cocoa.

French companies do spectacularly well in the global market place.

As long as China s commodity demand grows at a higher rate than global supply, prices will rise.

Admittedly, the global commodity price boom has had profound, albeit enormously complex and uncertain, effects on poverty.

A multilateral agency such as the World Bank could play a critical role in launching a market in commodity bonds.

Such measures will contribute to shaping a more stable market environment and ensure that commodity futures reduce risks and volatility.

15. One of the key factors in the weakness of commodity export earnings is the lack of international market opportunities.

Globalization has generated a new global market, but also global risks that beg for collective management.

Economically, Russia has turned into a commodity exporter, dependant on the imponderables of the global energy market, while simultaneously dreaming that it can use energy as a tool to revise the post Soviet order in its neighborhood.

Economically, Russia has turned into a commodity exporter, dependant on the imponderables of the global energy market, while simultaneously dreaming that it can use energy as a tool to revise the post Soviet order in its neighborhood.

As national economies and multinational companies compete for market share, global standards of market behavior become increasingly important.