Die offiziellen Meldungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes zur Entwicklung der Verbraucherpreise 2007 bestätigten den Eindruck vieler Konsumenten, dass sich der Anstieg der Preise für die Lebenshaltung in letzter Zeit beschleunigt hat. Die ausgewiesene Jahresteuerungsrate von 2,3% entspricht dem...

This report examines potential impacts on export markets and prices from commercializing GMOhard red spring wheat in the U.S. within the next two to six years. GMO crop technology offerspossible large benefits to consumers in the future, if plant-breeding concepts in the developmentstage...

Interest in commodity prices as indicators of consumerprice inflation has ebbed and flowed withthe rise and fall in commodity prices themselves.True to form, as commodity prices have surged inthe last two years (Chart 1), interest in their predictivepower has returned. Inflation hawks point to...