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Crazy money breeds new thinking

This article from The New Scientist suggests we might have to develop a whole new way of asssesing what drives all commodity markets. Intuitively, everyone knows that the herd instinct matters. But to measure this mathematically, or statistically, seems a mountainous but fascinating challenge. At least it will keep the a few academics off the […]

Japanese gloom builds as earnings fall

Yet more gloom – the world’s second-biggest economy appears to be slowing down as the effects of the sub-prime crisis spread. What will this mean for Japan’s chemical industry, which in the first half of the current financial year suffered badly from the highly cylical electronic chemicals sector? All will, of course, hinge on the […]

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