Sentences with phrase «about commodities as»

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Other resource sectors were around the flatline as worries about the economic fallout from a U.S. budgetary impasse pressured commodity prices.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Tuesday even as commodity prices lost ground amid questions about the economic impact from a looming U.S. government fiscal fight.

Before Thursday's rebound, the major stock indexes came had fallen in their previous two sessions, as concerns about tax reform and a pullback in commodities worried investors.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

Perth - based Strike Resources has sold its Apurimac and Cusco iron ore projects in Peru for about $ 13.5 million, as the company shifts its focus to other commodities.

... Anybody that thinks commodity can operate as an artesian is ignoring the basic facts about how businesses operate.»

One was Tina Reine, a Miami - based carbon commodities trader and aerialist who once delivered a TEDx talk about dancing as a springboard to girls» self - confidence.

«Sites such as Whitecoat treat healthcare as a commodity, and act as a barrier to encouraging a genuine conversation between health practitioners and patients about treatment needs and the treatment process,» ADA federal president Hugo Sachs said.

As a mirror image of a legal commodities business, the Sinaloa cartel brings to mind that old line about Ginger Rogers doing all the same moves as Fred Astaire, only backward and in heelAs a mirror image of a legal commodities business, the Sinaloa cartel brings to mind that old line about Ginger Rogers doing all the same moves as Fred Astaire, only backward and in heelas Fred Astaire, only backward and in heels.

As traditional exchanges announce bitcoin derivatives, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shared an update about its oversight of cryptocurrency markets.

While a number of simple measures of valuation have also been useful over the years, even metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.

I doubt it, but reputable forecasters such as Harry Dent believe that gold will drop to about $ 750 during the long term commodity bear market that he sees this decade.

In fact as I started writing more about the outlook for hard commodity prices over the next year, I adjusted my outlook downwards and proposed that iron ore prices would fall below $ 50 a ton before the end of the decade.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

These questions come as EM stocks have had a rollercoaster year, with valuations beaten up by concerns about China's economy, slowing global growth and lower commodity prices, just to name a few of the headwinds facing developing markets.

Among commodities, oil prices moved higher as fears about rising US shale production abated somewhat, and market participants began giving more weight to the effectiveness of supply cuts by members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and several other large oil - producing countries.

Commodities and Natural Resource Equities were some of the weaker performers in the first quarter as oil prices retreated by about 7.5 %.

Cocoa has been the strongest commodity in 2018 as we rallied about 25 % from the low as prices may have gotten ahead of themselves, but I will keep a close eye on this market.

«These developments, together with market concerns about the future performance of the Chinese economy, are having spillovers to other economies through trade channels and weaker commodity prices, as well as through diminishing confidence and increasing volatility in financial markets.»

As well as containing information about the gold, currency, stock, bond and commodity markets, these reports regularly include discussions about macro-economicAs well as containing information about the gold, currency, stock, bond and commodity markets, these reports regularly include discussions about macro-economicas containing information about the gold, currency, stock, bond and commodity markets, these reports regularly include discussions about macro-economics.

On May 7, 2018, officers from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will accumulate as a part of a operating workforce to speak about the regulatory classification of Ether and different cryptocurrencies.

Since March, however, the currency has fallen back to around the middle of its recent trading range as the degree of optimism about commodity prices receded and on the expectation that interest rate differentials relative to the US would narrow.

Uranium as a commodity was basically forgotten about until it marched up to a record high price above $ 130 USD / lb in 2007.

As I wrote about last week, the machines are allowed to go berserk and assign valuations to commodities that have zero justification in fundamental analysis.

But whereas in 1637 the average participant in the Dutch tulip market had a fairly good idea about what was being promised, as 2018 dawns, confusion abounds about exactly what Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum (Figure 2), Litecoin, and Dash are; how they differ from other currencies or commodities; and whether trading them in warrants any special policy attention.

While the inflation impact from higher oil prices and commodity prices in general, continue to pump up inflation expectation and push bond yields higher, keep in mind that much of the recent spike in Yields is about as much about supply as it is about inflation.

The ideas that have been attained, in this case the new reflection about the natural world, are treated as a commodity, and the question is understood to be one of marketing.

Since the natural world is understood simply as resource for commodities, there is no concern about ecological decay.

Christianity became as popular as it is today because these men used their flock as a commodity to spread their message and ideals about society.

But for the most part, routine ruled human affairs and «news» as we think we know it began with business, when trading associations in Northern Europe shared information about commodity prices and other conditions that would affect profit, developing newsletters with the new print technology.

But as it turns out, thinking about culture in this light — as a community activity and not just a commodity exchange — is more than just a «for the benefit of all» act of goodwill.

«We don't want to produce any energy that we do not use ourselves because this program is about sustainability, not about getting on the latest bandwagon of green by creating solar energy as a hot commodity.

But Mr Helou is confident the co-operative's shift away from commodities, which now represents about 30 per cent of its overall sales volume, would help as a cushion against further volatility.

The fund, managed by rural property veteran David Bryant, also grew distributions by 4 per cent to 8.92 cents in FY16 (a yield of about 5.4 per cent) as it benefited from rising global demand for the commodities its properties produce, the increasing scale and value of its portfolio and growing appetite for agribusiness from big institutional investors.

The communities we're working with reside on the Atlantic coast, in the central eastern and Corredor Seco regions, as well as in the remote, northeastern Moskitia area, where about a quarter of Honduras's remaining forests still stands; the commodities they produce include timber, cocoa, coffee, and rambutan (a fruit similar to lychee).

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

But descent L / R Backs are a rare commodity and he's about as good as we will be able to afford.

Da Costa declared that he had lined up Pereira as a possible successor to Villas - Boas «about a month» before the 33 year - old departed for Chelsea, and whilst there may be an element of exaggeration in what he said, there is little doubt that continuity is a prized commodity at the Dragão, on and off the pitch.

As a floor broker trading in the gold «pit,» his deals had earned about $ 350,000 for his employer, Niederhoffer, Cross & Zeckhauser, Inc., which speculates in commodities.

However, as I also noted in my first post about this issue, what remains of greater concern is the likelihood that USDA will soon lift the export ban on raw Chinese poultry, a commodity that could well be cheaper than U.S. raw poultry.

Some of my friends in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian economy captures that the cost of living in Nigeria continue to soar and in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity in the country can not be afforded by the poor.

Despite being, by any reasonable measure, about as much of an «establishment» figure as is possible, the career politician and former commodities trader has managed to present himself as the leader of a people's revolution.

«When the review into LIBOR is looked at, it will of course include this market [the oil market], and will aim to publish conclusions by the end of September... as a result of this debate, and the arguments from my Hon. Friend [Robert Halfon], I will also write to the FSA about concerns raised today... It is absolutely right that we enhance transparency in the oil and commodity markets... It is clear from the data that there is a considerable time - lag involved [between oil prices and petrol prices].

If you wanted to find a commodity whose escalating scarcity and price would cause maximum discomfort to complacent westerners, coffee is about as good as it gets.

The Organic Consumers Association is concerned about health risks and commodity price manipulation by corporate giants such as Monsanto.

«A key message is that US free trade agreements can increase exposure to potentially hazardous commodities — it's as much about changes to the harmful ingredients in peoples» diets as it is about the total number of calories consumed,» says Ms. Barlow.

On the commodity market it is an average priced sweetener, costing about 72 % as much as sugar for the same unit of sweetness.

On the commodity market it is one of the more costly artificial sweeteners, being about twice as expensive as aspartame.

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

Fesnadillo previously made the curious Intacto in his native Spain, a brilliant yet flawed thriller about luck as a commodity, and here he does honour the original 28 Days Later..., but thankfully starts from scratch with new characters.