(e) Price volatility

One apparent consequence is extreme price volatility.

Global economic instability correlates strongly with energy price volatility.

Security problems and disruptions in production also increased price volatility.

Weather related events are a major cause of price volatility on agricultural markets.

The more energy efficient one is, the lower one s vulnerability to price volatility.

While this is keeping price volatility in check, it is also hindering employment growth.

Price volatility has also been high for commodities that are not traded in futures markets (copper, iron, and ore), or for which these markets are not important (steel and rice)

Economists generally consider commodity futures to be the solution to higher price volatility, not its cause.

Since these responses are overdue, they are severe and lead to energy price spikes and volatility.

While not a cause of price volatility, speculation on derivatives of essential food commodities significantly worsens it.

The price is high.

But their presence has also raised concerns that speculation in commodity futures could result in higher price volatility.

Given these findings, trading in futures markets seems to have amplified price volatility in the short term only.

Ethnic division combined with high levels of unemployment is a recipe for volatility.

But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop shortages and food price volatility.

The growth slowdown is a much greater concern than the recent asset price volatility, even if the latter grabs more headlines.

The Ethical Cost of High Price Art

The eurozone s sovereign risk problems could worsen, leading to another round of asset price corrections, global risk aversion, volatility, and financial contagion.

Recent global economic trends called for major policy initiatives, for example for export diversification, investment in infrastructure and control of price volatility.

He paid too high a price for success.

A high price was paid for that ignorance.

Should it fail, the price will be high.

Oil is not a reliable deterrent to democracy in the long term, owing to price volatility and the development of alternative energy sources.

UNCTAD is also actively working on issues related to the impact of oil price volatility on African oil importing and oil exporting countries.

Incompetence during a political transition has a high price.

Japan has paid a high price for this attitude.

For this, many countries involved paid a high price.

It seems a high price to pay for gossip.

She is paying the high price for ethical journalism.

A lack of investment in agriculture that feeds local communities makes these countries vulnerable to international price shocks, as well as to exchange rate volatility.

It supports the purchase of equities by central banks to reduce asset price volatility, restore the value of wealth, and prevent a future market crash.

A high price had to be paid for this agreement.

Looking forward, in the short run, speculators will continue to fuel oil price volatility as bullish and bearish factors steer them one way or the other.

That is why it appears safer to predict high volatility in 2010 than to predict that home prices will rise.

Time and experience will help that is, so long as high volatility does not destabilize many economies in the interim.

The era of floating exchange rates that followed the end of the gold standard required the development of products that could protect international trade from price volatility.

When containment has been abandoned, America has paid a high price.

Indeed, one of the big puzzles of the US stock market recently has been low price volatility since around 2004, amid the most volatile earnings growth ever seen.

The price of pursuing a moral foreign policy simply became too high.

Countries that have signed such investment agreements have paid a high price.

America is paying a high price for continuing in the opposite direction.

The high price of such drugs is limiting their impact as well.

The mistakes of the past decade will exact a very high price.

Also common to rentier states are short investment horizons, vulnerability to commodity price volatility euphoria when they surge, crisis when they collapse and an underdeveloped and uncompetitive manufacturing sector.