Now, the shipping news is bad

Courtesy Marketplace  Wed, 10/15/2008 - 10:45

The latest indication of global economic slowdown comes from something called the Baltic Dry Index. It tracks the price of hauling commodities like oil and grain.

Those prices are at the lowest point in five years. Jeremy Hobson reports.


 

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