Sentences with phrase «dependent on commodity»

The article illustrates the difficulty we have always had with businesses that are entirely dependent on commodity pricing.

For instance, VWO is very heavily dependent on commodity prices.

Many of the EM economies were also very dependent on commodity exports, and the collapse of commodity prices will depress incomes in these economies.

To that end, we focus on developing valuation techniques that are not completely dependent on commodity price forecasts.

Although price rises looked unlikely this season, with Murray Goulburn maintaining its opening price of $ 5.60 a kilogram milk solids, Mr Helou said the farm gate price would be much lower if the co-operative was still dependent on commodities.

Not exact matches

Canada's economy is more heavily dependent than the U.S.'s on commodities industries (think oil, mining, and timber) and on banking.

After rejecting Brooksley Born's attempt to regulate credit - default swaps at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1998, he served his banking benefactors by passionately supporting Robert Rubin and Larry Summers in pressing the Clinton Administration to repeal Glass - Steagall, opening the door to make consumer banking dependent on wild financial gambling by the likes of Citibank and what has become Bank of America.

Because the school lunch program, run by the USDA, is highly dependent on low - cost agricultural commodity products, the campaign is calling on the agency to broaden its commodity selection.

It is heavily dependent on United States Department of Agriculture commodity foods (the main ones being meat, soy, corn and wheat)

Converting petroleum into those commodities has always been cheaper, which is why we've grown so dependent on oil.

Second thing is that the craziness where nobody thought there was any risk, so that for example in 2007 you could buy credit default swaps on Dubai sovereign debt, the riskiest region in the world dependent on the most unstable commodity in the world, which is oil, for four basis points.

Derivative A financial instrument, traded on or off an exchange, the price of which is directly dependent upon (i.e., «derived from») the value of one or more underlying securities, equity indices, debt instruments, commodities, other derivative instruments, or any agreed upon pricing index or arrangement (e.g., the movement over time of the Consumer Price Index or freight rates).

Futures are standardized to facilitate trading on the futures exchange where the detail of the underlying asset is dependent on the quality and quantity of the commodity.

In many cases, their economies can be heavily dependent on the prices for commodities exports.

They can be a good asset class for diversification and act as an inflation hedge, but investors should be prepared for wild swings dependent on supply and demand of the given commodity.

A financial instrument, traded on or off an exchange, the price of which is directly dependent upon the value of one or more underlying securities, equity indices, debt instruments, commodities, other derivative instruments, or any agreed upon pricing index or arrangement.

Consequently, as it relates to valuation, companies in the materials sector are often dependent on the price movement of a macro variable of either the price of the underlying commodity, or the health of the underlying economy.

The artist continues, «There seems to be two ways of looking at nature: as something having immense power and spirituality, which we are intricately part of and dependent on; or as a commodity to be exploited.»

«Indigenous people are forced to give up their sustainable livelihoods and are being made dependent on the capricious global commodity and biofuels market.

This dumping of subsidized commodities destroyed the ag production capacity of other countries (third world farmers could not economically compete against the US taxpayer) making them completely dependent on imports of US ag commodities.

According to «Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity,» a 2005 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, «farmers in regions of the country that are highly dependent on a single crop, such as tobacco or wheat, have shown interest in hemp's potential as a high - value alternative crop...» (Read the report here.)

Farms grew to enormous sizes, becoming focused on a few commodity crops and increasingly dependent on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

India has very small gold reserves and it is dependent totally on the commodities market across the globe to meet the demand for gold.