Sentences with phrase «higher than the commodities»

«The prices we've been paying for coffee have been substantially higher than the commodities market for years,» since craft wholesalers typically source coffee directly from farmers and co-operatives.

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DAKAR, April 24 - Congo's state miner Gecamines is starting legal proceedings to dissolve its Kamoto copper and cobalt joint venture with a subsidiary of Glencore, blaming the commodities giant for high debts that have weighed on the mine for more than 10 years.

As a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bonds.

DAKAR, April 24 (Reuters)- Congo's state miner Gecamines is starting legal proceedings to dissolve its Kamoto copper and cobalt joint venture with a subsidiary of Glencore, blaming the commodities giant for high debts that have weighed on the mine for more than 10 years.

«While it's not uncommon for commodities and USD to rally or sell off at the same time, especially when we look at their returns at a higher frequency (daily or weekly), 4Q 2016 was actually the first quarter in more than a decade to see such a sizable divergence,» the analysts added.

This commodity has a higher carbon content than thermal coal and burns at much higher temperatures.

Overall, inflation expectations are marginally higher than in the winter survey: higher commodity prices and expected inflationary pressures in the United States are viewed as contributing to domestic inflation over the next two years.

There are alternatives that can protect investors from future inflation that are less volatile (TIPS) or offer a better return profile (REITs and even high quality dividend stocks) than commodities.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

If growth in America is accelerating, which it seems to be, and any remaining slack in the labor markets is disappearing — and wages start going up, as do commodity prices — then it is not an unreasonable possibility that inflation could go higher than people might expect.

In SDR terms, the Bank's index of commodity prices increased again in the June quarter, to be about 7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 27).

«The supercycle ain't over, China is still buying, demand for commodities hasn't tapered off, it's even higher than it's ever been,» Glasenberg said today in an interview.

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I doubt that the decline in economic confidence has run its course, so I expect the gold / commodity ratio to move further into new - high territory before something more important than a short - term top is put in place.

If oil prices continue to stay above the level assumed in the March 2011 Budget, and commodity prices continue to rise then corporate profits will be higher and the revenue savings resulting from keeping the rate at 18 % could actually be higher than in the Liberal platform.

Hitting $ 6.40 per million BTUs on Thursday, the commodity has risen more than 30 percent in eight trading sessions, up to a five - year high.

We also expect valuations to improve after the release of better - than - expected first quarter results from the sector leaders, on the back of higher commodity prices without cost inflation.

If each subsequent month on the futures «curve» is priced higher than preceding months, a commodity is said to be in contango.

That is what has been happening — commodity prices are now 9 per cent lower than at their March 1997 high in SDR terms.

It is important to note, however, that other things have not been equal: the Australian dollar has depreciated such that in $ A terms, commodity prices are actually higher than a year ago.

So well, in fact, that relative to the Goldman Sachs Spot Commodity Index (GNX) the gold price is at an all - time high and about 30 % higher than it was at its 2011 peak.

The tendency for dealers to trade the Australian dollar in line with commodity prices, themselves strongly correlated with US economic growth, may also have contributed to the link, although the correlation of the Australian dollar with the US dollar has been significantly higher than its correlation with commodity prices.

The Bank's Commodity Price Index (in SDRs) rose by 5 per cent during the March quarter, to a level 21 per cent higher than the trough reached in September 1993 (Graph 26); it then eased back a little in April.

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 4.3 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to October, driven by rises in the prices of rural goods and base metals, to be 1.7 per cent higher than a year ago (Graph 48).

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 3.8 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to January, to be nearly 10 per cent higher than its recent trough in May 2003 and nearly 23 per cent higher than the low levels prevailing in 1999 (Table 11; Graph 48).

A few dollar - denominated commodities moved higher on Friday in response to a weaker U.S. Dollar, a drop in U.S. Treasury yields and softer - than - expected U.S. economic data.The dollar was pressured against a basket of currencies after the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product came in at 2.3 percent.

While we believe lower commodity prices are a boon to the economy over time, the abruptness of their price decline and a lingering «commodity super-cycle» mentality likely caught many with more commodity inventory (acquired at higher prices) than proved desirable.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Additionally, milk that's used for fresh milk (and its products like butter or cheese) attracts a marginally higher premium than the milk being used for commodity products like milk powder.

Other than being known for its superior marbling, Wagyu has higher percentages of omega - 3 and omega - 6 fatty acids, and is lower in cholesterol than commodity beef making it suitable for a healthy well balanced diet.

«Organic rice has a higher dollar value than conventional, but it is still a commodity crop and will fetch a lower price than other specialty crops,» says Greg.

Despite the more difficult global environment, with lower commodity prices and domestic power shortages, economic growth in 2015 was close to 4 percent, slightly higher than expected.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisited).

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High school teacher and instructional coach Tony Winger laments how traditional classroom grading practices lead to grades becoming a distraction from learning — a commodity students feel they work the system to attain — rather than a clear message to students and parents.

Future high yield bond returns will likely be more muted — and depend more on improving fundamentals than commodity prices.

Alternative investments, including commodities, involve a higher degree of risk and can be more volatile and less liquid than shares and bonds.

I expect this combination to result in moderately higher interest rates and to support risk assets (such as equities, commodities, high - yield bonds, real estate, and currencies), and, therefore, I suggest being more bold than cautious in the coming year.

However, if the commodity's forward price curve is downward sloping (in contango), then the roll process would involve rolling into a futures contract that is trading at a higher price than the current futures contract.

Here is the one asset class that may even move in a different direction than the majority of other assets (e.g., domestic bonds, domestic stocks, international stocks or high - flying commodities, etc.).

However, as a result of investors» pursuit of better - diversified portfolios and a recognition that systematic risk factors explain the majority of returns, the development of commodity alternative beta products is gathering pace... From our investigation in this study, there appears to be potential benefit in allocating into alternative beta strategies as part of a portfolio's commodity allocation, and we find that combining risk - based and factor - based commodity strategies has historically delivered higher return and lower risk than passive long - only strategies on their own.»

«When a rise in the price of the commodity occurs, there will ordinarily be a larger advance, percentagewise, in the shares of high - cost producers than in the shares of low - cost producers.

So even uninformed investors that pick stocks at random will generally do better than someone doing the same in commodities even before the higher commodities trading fees are taken into account.

Since these two processes, commodity de-stocking and flight capital, work in opposite ways to affect the trade account, it is hard to tell whether China's real trade surplus is lower or higher than the reported surplus.

Premium (1) The additional payment allowed by exchange regulation for delivery of higher - than - required standards or grades of a commodity against a futures contract.

This means that though commodities may generally have a higher standard deviation (overall volatility), they also tend to snap away from a losing streak faster than equities do, so their worst periods tend to be less significant than the worst case scenarios presented by equities.

There are more than just the two standard types of Put and Call types of Binary Options trades that you are now able to place at any online Binary Options trading sites, and while the basic idea of you having to predict whether the value of any assets, indices or commodity will be higher or lower at the end of the trade than at the start is the same, you may be interested in learning more about One Touch Binary Options which do appeal to a lot of online traders.

Commodity brokers may have higher qualification requirements for futures accounts than exist for securities accounts.

Studies have shown professional Commodity Trading Advisors do experience an appreciably higher success rate than the individual amateur trader.

Furthermore most DP (used in Rayon and other synthetic materials) is consumed in China which has their own high - cost mills and is looking into «dumping» by non Chinese manufacturers (perhaps as a way to support employment at home rather than enjoy lower commodity prices).