Sentences with phrase «commodities on the open market»

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Historically, options contracts were created to help farmers and other commodity producers lock in a sales price for their crops before they were ready to sell on an open market.

The company has also had to take big losses related to write - downs of the value of its oil and gas assets, to reflect the lower prices these energy commodities are garnering on the open market.

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.

Like other classes of assets such as stocks, commodities have value and can be traded on open markets.

Niederhoffer — the only player to wrest the North American Open title from Khan in the»70s, which he accomplished in 1975 — thinks there are similarities between playing squash and dealing on the commodities market: the pressure, the necessity for making quick decisions, the elbowing for position.