David Fickling
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Sydney Morning Herald
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- Jul 26, 2026
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A 175-year-old golden rule in markets is starting to break (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In commodity markets, certain truths can be taken as self-evident. Gold consistently cost about 15 times as much as silver for more than 2000 years, from the time of the Lydian king Croesus to the 19th-century gold standard. Sharp movements in the ratio between copper and oil prices are often taken by traders as indicators of seismic shifts in the world economy. You can make a similar argument abo
The next unlikely victim of the Iran crisis? Fast fashion (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. You might think that missiles flying over the Strait of Hormuz are a world away from your closet full of fleece jackets, leggings and trainers. In fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Most of your wardrobe is made of oil, in the form of polyester, nylon, spandex and other synthetic fibres. Though the ripples from a petroleum shock propagate more quickly to the prices of petrol, diesel an
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