{"id":66,"date":"2008-07-10T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:13:05","slug":"historical-commodity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Commodity Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/\">historical commodity prices section<\/a> with the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/\">IMF<\/a> data. Historical data for 8 price indices and 49 commodities now includes June 2008 numbers. I&#8217;m including a chart showing that the aggregate commodity price index, i.e. the index that tracks energy, metals, food, and raw materials, continued its upward march in June. It increased 5.7% with respect to May 2008, 32.6% with respect to January 2008, and 62% with respect to June 2007. Inflation has clearly become a serious problem around the World.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/?commodity=commodity-price-index&amp;months=60\"><img alt=\"Commodity Price Index - Monthly Price - Commodity Prices\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/image.aspx?commodity=commodity-price-index&amp;months=60\" style=\"border: solid 1px #rgb(0.6,0.6,0.6);\" title=\"Click to play with this data at IndexMundi\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the image above to play with the data<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just updated the historical commodity prices section with the latest IMF data. Historical data for 8 price indices and 49 commodities now includes June 2008 numbers. I&#8217;m including a chart showing that the aggregate commodity price index, i.e. the index that tracks energy, metals, food, and raw materials, continued its upward march in June. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Historical Commodity Prices' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/10\/historical-commodity-prices\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,27,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}