{"id":50169,"date":"2015-02-04T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/commodity-prices-down-5\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:02:16","slug":"commodity-prices-down-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/commodity-prices-down-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodity prices down 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras&iacute;lia &ndash; The prices of commodities (internationally traded staple goods) was down 5.14% in January this year from December 2014. Over a 12-month period, the Brazil Commodities Index (&Iacute;ndice de Commodities Brasil &#8211; IC-Br), measured on a monthly basis by the Brazilian Central Bank, dropped by 1.37%.<\/p>\n<p>The IC-Br keeps track of the fluctuations in prices of products sold internationally that are relevant to consumer price dynamics in Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, energy commodities (oil, natural gas and charcoal) were down 15.56% and weighed down on prices the most. Metals (aluminum, iron ore, copper, tin, zinc, lead and nickel) were down 4.21%. <\/p>\n<p>Agricultural commodities (beef, cotton, soy oil, wheat, sugar, maize, coffee, rice and pork) were down 3.62%. <\/p>\n<p>The international index calculated by the Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) was down 3.99% in January and up 3.79% in 12 months. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such was the decline as per the Brazil Commodities Index, measured by the Brazilian Central Bank, in January from December 2014. The energy sector was the main culprit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Such was the decline as per the Brazil Commodities Index, measured by the Brazilian Central Bank, in January from December 2014. The energy sector was the main culprit.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}