commodity boom

Thanks to the commodity boom and rising revenues, governments in many countries have had an easy time of it in the past few years.

Nevertheless, trying to scoop the froth from the commodity boom looks justified in the struggle to ensure more balanced long-term growth.

And the commodity boom means skilled workers of any colour are being pursued by foreign companies as well as local ones.

Even permanent bears did not see the full bursting of the credit bubble linked with the commodity boom.

The commodity boom has so far concealed the slowdown, but even if prices stay high, further gains on this scale seem unlikely.

The end of the commodity boom was especially welcomed in countries that had witnessed riots over high food prices earlier in the year.

However, it is now clear that the commodity boom peaked in June-July 2008 and is in sharp reverse.

But since the summer the commodity boom has turned to bust, changing the inflation outlook dramatically.

The European Renaissance of social and cultural reform era, the commodity boom, the public class expansion.

Its mines, oil and gas producers and farmers have benefited from the commodity boom brought about by China's appetite for raw materials.

This strong performance, linked in large part to the global commodity boom, has attracted big inflows of foreign cash.

The commodity boom over the past few years has given most of the power to miners, who constantly raised prices.

Mr Morales is popular, in part because since taking office in January 2006 he has presided over a commodity boom (which is now fizzling).

Underneath, already oil palms are pushing up, planted by local farmers to feed Indonesia's latest commodity boom.

He is investing the fund in stocks with exposure to gold, such as Newcrest Mining, as he sees the commodity boom continuing to run.

And you may have been riding the commodity boom without even realizing it.

Canada and Australia have strong banks and are benefiting from the commodity boom.

Rich in energy, it is riding what is likely to prove the longest commodity boom in a century.

A few years ago, Cosco's decision to buy relief from the commodity boom's high shipping prices through long-term contracts made sense.

The $64 trillion question for investors is: Will the commodity boom continue, or will it stall out?

Yet an outbreak of nimbyism is threatening the commodity boom.

China's hunger for natural resources has set off a global commodity boom.

At the peak of the commodity boom in 2008, energy was Canada's largest export.

Until recently peripheral countries such as Brazil remained largely unaffected; indeed, they benefited from the commodity boom.

The commodity boom of 1968-80 coincided with a bear market for equities.

Many analysts don't see the commodity boom as having already entered a bubble phase.

Even in America, rates might now perhaps be 1% (as they were in 2003) without the commodity boom.

The rise has come amid a broader commodity boom.

Growth in East Asia was 10%, in South Asia over 8%, in eastern Europe almost 7% and in Africa, thanks to the commodity boom, over 6%.

For example, when pre-crisis economists talked about the commodity boom, they almost never mentioned easy money.

How long will the commodity boom last?