Sentences with phrase «by commodity producers»

U.K. stocks slid the most in more than three weeks, led by commodity producers, as a private report showed that Chinese manufacturing expanded at a slower - than - expected pace last month.

That being said we can not oppose the practice of hedging by any commodity producer for whatever purpose that free agent has in the mind.

Not exact matches

While some major mines have closed and other commodity plays have outshone diamonds over the past decade, Canada remains the third largest producer by value and fifth largest by volume globally.

Like zinc, crude and other commodities, the PGMs were supported the last six months by lower output levels, as labor disputes in South Africa — the world's largest platinum producer and number two largest palladium producing country — disrupted operations.

The country's PPI, which measures prices received by producers at the first commercial sale, is strengthening on higher commodity prices.

In fact, a broad range of emerging - market assets enjoyed a favorable backdrop, boosted by a number of additional factors, including solid demand from China — which bolstered revenues for many commodity producers — and an absence (to date) of protectionist trade measures from the Trump administration.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

A long - running trade dispute between the United States and Mexico over the American sugar market has been resolved by the U.S. International Trade Commission (U.S. ITC), which ruled in late October that Mexican imports of the commodity had hurt U.S. sugar producers.

A failure to innovate would see the profitable parts of the industry swallowed up by large U.S. players, with Canadian banks largely becoming commodity producers.

But the share of total spending on commodity imports by consumers, especially developed lands, is tiny while they account for the bulk of exports for producers, notably developing countries.

Those individuals rendered worthless as producers and commodities by obsolescence — the old and infirm — are discarded (warehoused or euthanized) and the nonproductive poor (the homeless, the unemployed, the irresponsible, the incompetent) are viewed as a threat.

Cocoa is probably the most sustainable of all internationally traded commodities, so there are several «feel - good» reasons for eating the chocolate made from it this Easter — at least when the cocoa is grown by smallholder producers and traded by processors that are committed to equitable sharing of profits.

ONE of the nation's largest producers of Wagyu - infused beef is undergoing a radical restructure, driven by elevated commodity prices, changing market forces, and a belief some Wagyu beef production systems in Australia are unsustainable.

While technology and process allows cheap commodities to hit the market, in most industries the product is controlled by each manufacturer / producer.

That was followed by the emerging - market resource producers facing a crunch when commodity prices halved in under a year.

It was first utilized by farmers and other commodity producers in order to hedge against poor crop yields.

This adoption by contracted producers is not unexpected, since a handful of powerful pharmaceutical and agrichemical multinational corporations like Bayer and Monsanto, have gained a monopolistic control over the major commodity crop seed stocks, making available to farmers only their highly promoted, patented varieties of GE seeds.

Facilitated by the liberalizing of world trade, the internationalization of production and commodity consumption, and developments in transport and communications, offshoring has allowed nomadic capitalists, itinerant individuals, contemporary artists and cultural producers to scour the globe for resources and new markets, opening the world through displacing labor and circulating capital.

-- Twenty - four leading global producers of palm oil as well as commodities traders committed to contribute to the goal of zero net deforestation by 2020 and to work with Governments, private sector partners and indigenous peoples to ensure a sustainable supply chain.

A subseasonal decision support system has the potential to help users better navigate what is often a volatile agricultural commodity marketplace and reign in risk exposure faced by agricultural producers and suppliers.

MacAfee's conclusions match those of the Munden Project, a comprehensive assessment of REDD + conducted by experts in derivatives trading, which points out, «Experience with numerous commodities markets shows a generalized pattern whereby commodity producers receive an extremely limited percentage of the final commodity cost.»

Voluntary demand for forest carbon offsets increased, too, and several developments — including the flurry of green supply chain commitments by major commodity producers and the fact that more than 400 major companies now have an internal price on carbon — indicate that the world of private sector actors potentially interested in forest carbon interventions is quickly expanding.