La spéculation sur les matières premières1

Abstract

What part has to be indebted to the financial speculation in the recent food an energy price inflation? Informations on this controversial question may be found through the works of different commissions of the US Senate. Particularly lights have been bring upon the mechanisms by which new speculators, made “investments” in the commodities futures market, and behave differently from the traditional speculators that have always existed in this marketplace.

Keywords

• commodities and oil price
• financial speculation