1. The industrial economies now produce barely half of total world output. 2. Those prices concern only a tiny proportion of world output and consumption. 3. World food output had grown steadily in the fifties and sixties. 4. Copper could fall next week, leading commodities lower, as rising world output and weak Asian demand push stockpiles higher. 5. Competition has stiffened on falling world output of the commodity and rising prices. 6. Davies said he expects growth in world oil output to continue to be more evenly shared between OPEC and non-OPEC during the next five years. 7. Its share of world output and exports fell. 8. Plunging world output means lower oil prices, which mean trouble for the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. 9. The developing world now accounts for almost half of world output. 10. Arid weather in South America poses a threat to a leading soybean crop and could ultimately shrink world output this year. |