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Accurate Trade Data Key to Understanding Depth of Crisis
London, March 2010
IMF Survey Online: One indicator of the severity of the recent global financial crisis was the sharp drop in global trade. The IMF has published an updated manual that would more accurately measure and analyze the depth of the recent global trade slump by setting standards for measuring price changes of exported and imported goods and services.Read more: Accurate Trade Data Key to Understanding Depth of Crisis
CFTC Regulatory Regime: Energy & Natural Resources
Washington D.C., 9 March 2010
Testimony of Chairman Gary Gensler before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Commodities Review 2009
London, 5 February 2010
Commodities rallied strongly in 2009 as aggressive monetary and fiscal easing drove a sharp rebound in global leading indicators and reversed the financial panic if the second half of 2008.
An early warning system for asset bubbles
London, 27 January 2010
As policymakers and business leaders gather in Davos this week, much of their conversation will no doubt focus on how to drive a global economic recovery. Yet they should spend just as much time and energy discussing how to prevent the next devastating financial crisis – specifically, how to spot and prick asset bubbles as they are inflating.NYSE liffe Commodity Derivatives record-breaking performance - 2009
London, 21 January 2010
NYSE Liffe’s Commodity Derivatives business set numerous volume and open interest records during 2009: Total Commodity Derivatives open interest record of 1,034,000 contracts in September 2009.Read more: NYSE liffe Commodity Derivatives record-breaking performance - 2009
EIU: Latest global forecast
London, 21 January 2010
The global recovery, which began in Asian emerging markets, is now well under way. Uncertainty remains, however, about the sustainability of demand once the inventory cycle has run its course and stimulus is withdrawn.
2010 - A year of Transformation for the World and for Asia
Hong Kong, 20 January 2010
An Address by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund: At the Asian Financial Forum: Hong Kong, January 20, 2010.
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The US in a transformed world: Comment
London, January 2010
The United States of America, in global strategic terms, is tumbling down a series of misadventures, declining in a “step of sighs” through frustrating economic and military endeavours as it discovers that its superpower structures and massive capital wealth are insufficient to cope with a transformed world.
Water: Central Asia's most precious resource, not oil
London, January 2010
Since the 1991 collapse of the USSR, foreign investors have looked at the former Soviet space as a land rich in underdeveloped resources waiting for Western technology and finance to bring to the world market.Read more: Water: Central Asia's most precious resource, not oil
Global Risk Report 2010
January 2010
Warnings of the long shadow of the financial crisis: The result of extensive input throughout the previous year by experts from business, academia, and the public sector, Global Risks 2010 highlights a number of slow-moving risks exacerbated by the financial crisis and global economic downturn, and stresses the continued need to further enhance global resilience to risks. Global governance gaps, an issue already to the fore in Global Risks 2009, continues to be at the nexus of global risks and the need for coordinated global action is increasingly urgent.
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