EconomicsAustralia Canada USA: Price rises: Oil, cocoa, now barley

Montreal Gazette (Mar7,2k11)

Barley shortages could have 

beer drinkers crying in their suds

BY BRADLEY BOUZANE, POSTMEDIA NEWS AND REUTERS MARCH 7, 2011 7:02 PM

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Flooding lowered the quality of the latest barley crops in Canada and Australia, leaving some unsuitable to turn into malt, the germinated barley product used in beer.

Photograph by: Daniel Munoz/Reuters, Daniel Munoz/Reuters

Some commodities 

experiencing price rises

(click individual commodities below)

Barley    Cocoa 

Coffee - Vietnam, Kenya, Uganda,

               Brazil - Columbia 

Oil - Shale Gas - Canada  Tar sands oil 

         Eurozone 

         OPEC - US Strategic

PoliticsIran: Sanctions & Oil: With a new nuke test, Iran scoffs at Western oil sanctions

Christian Science Monitor began publishing a 3-page selection of its top stories, and you can receive it free for a month, to try it out and to decide if you want to obtain a paid subscription. I'm dutifully trying it out. The top story of the first issue issue received, a kind of sampler, I guess, is not current news "Iran tests powerful missile: launch determins claims of peaceful intention" (Dec17,2k9) by CSM reporter Scott Peterson. So, I'm not all that impressed, yet there's sometihing uncanny about the article, it's déjà-vu quality. Here it is after more than a year.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY – 
Iran test-fired the latest version

of its longest-range missile on Wednesday,

sending a message of defiance as pressure

mounts on Tehran over its nuclear program.

The test came a day after the US House of

Representatives overwhelmingly approved

tougher sanctions legislation against Iran.

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