commodity and food price rises unsustainable:

These rises in the last 12 months cannot be sustained or inflation will send the global economy into depression IMO.

You decide & make hay whilst the sun shines:

Commodity 1 Month Change 12 Month change


Crude Oil (petroleum), Price index 3.00% 20.23%
Coal, Australian thermal coal 15.20% 36.57%
Crude Oil (petroleum) 2.84% 20.20%
Crude Oil (petroleum); Dated Brent 4.89% 26.08%
Crude Oil (petroleum); Dubai Fateh 3.49% 20.31%
Crude Oil (petroleum); West Texas Int. 0.40% 14.23%
Indonesian Liquified Natural Gas 5.04% 7.07%
Natural Gas 5.76% -23.11%
Russian Natural Gas 5.27% 21.08%
Cocoa beans 3.85% -10.15%
Coffee, Other Mild Arabicas 10.79% 70.29%
Coffee, Robusta 7.81% 41.17%
Tea 4.54% 8.69%
Barley 2.91% 33.10%
Maize (corn) 5.68% 58.66%
Rice -1.73% -11.79%
Sorghum 11.17% 52.24%
Wheat 6.37% 62.05%
Bananas 5.75% 21.30%
Oranges 1.48% -32.54%
Beef 8.48% 38.65%
Poultry (chicken) -0.45% 2.36%
Lamb 0.29% -3.12%
Swine (pork) 9.01% 11.43%
Fish (salmon) -4.13% 30.68%
Shrimp 1.02% 10.28%
Sugar 3.25% 46.46%
Sugar, European import price 1.00% -2.45%
Sugar, U.S. import price 3.25% 32.63%
Coconut Oil 20.29% 163.14%
Fishmeal 0.89% -8.06%
Olive Oil, extra virgin -0.47% -19.68%
Palm Kernel Oil 16.92% 142.37%
Palm oil 5.75% 66.92%
Peanut Oil 2.00% 35.87%
Groundnuts (peanuts) 15.41% 29.18%
Rapeseed Oil 1.16% 29.10%
Soybean Meal 6.34% 26.46%
Soybean Oil 4.03% 49.98%
Soybeans 5.65% 42.38%
Sunflower oil 4.28% 37.30%
Coarse Wool 14.87% 20.00%
Copra 17.33% 158.40%
Cotton 6.35% 131.18%
DAP fertilizer 0.31% 39.36%
Fine Wool 22.33% 54.70%
Hard Logs 0.74% 19.45%
Hard Sawnwood 1.20% 14.54%
Hides 1.85% 19.34%
Potassium Chloride 3.81% 3.70%
Rock Phosphate 10.71% 58.97%
Rubber 16.30% 79.10%
Soft Logs -4.80% 25.46%
Soft Sawnwood -5.17% 10.49%
Triple Superphosphate 0.53% 60.34%
Urea -0.26% 35.68%
Aluminum 3.52% 9.40%
Cold-rolled steel 0.00% 21.43%
Copper, grade A cathode 4.16% 29.40%
Gold -2.46% 21.33%
Hot-rolled steel 0.00% 25.00%
Iron Ore -1.30% 77.85%
Lead 7.08% 9.85%
Nickel 6.31% 39.20%
Rebar 9.09% 17.65%
Silver -2.80% 60.85%
Steel wire rod 2.05% -11.56%
Tin 5.12% 54.94%
Uranium 5.33% 45.74%
Zinc 3.87% -1.61%

Reuters.