Sentences with phrase «less than a commodity»

«Gold today is nothing more or less than a commodity, and we could have a debate whether it's a commodity or a currency without an interest rate,» Watt continues.

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The motivating force behind this model, Times executives say, is that breaking news has more or less become a commodity because anyone with a website — or even just a smartphone and a Twitter account — can publish news as fast or faster than a newspaper.

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.

Gunvor Group Ltd. is giving up trading physical precious metals less than a year after the commodity house started a business dedicated to buying and selling gold.

Most EME currencies also fell against the dollar, with the currencies of commodity importers depreciating less than those of commodity exporters (Graph 7, bottom right - hand panel).

Tudor Trade offers you nothing less than a variety of over 220 assets that are made up of the most traded and popular Indices (FTSE, AEX, DOW JONES), Stocks (APPLE, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE), Currencies (EUR / USD, USD / GPB, USD / JPY) and Commodities (GOLD, PLATINUM, SILVER, OIL) in the business.

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

«For commodity ETFs excluding gold, outflows accounted for less than 1 percent of the overall decline.»

An appreciation of the exchange rate means that: the increase in the domestic currency price of commodity exports will be less than the increase in world commodity prices; the income of the other tradable sector will fall; and real income gains flow to the broader economy via the associated decline in the price of imports.

No one commodity can comprise less than 2 % or more than 15 % of the index, and no group can represent more than 33 % of the index (as of the annual reweightings of the components).

There has been considerably less adjustment of interest rates in the current episode, however, relative to earlier commodity price booms; for example, the energy boom in the late 1970s / early 1980s, which was smaller than the current resource boom.

While there are companies with export interests, they tend to be in the commodity business, in which the need for international expertise tends to be less demanding than in manufacturing or services.

However, that's largely because oil fell from over $ 100 a barrel to less than $ 50, pulling down retail prices for gasoline, home heating oil and related commodities.

This isn't the case for all commodities as some exhibit less elasticity of demand than others.

Precious metals have been less than satisfactory, to say nothing of the broader commodity complex.

The associated commodity super-cycle and emerging markets century have proved much less durable investment trends than Wall Street expected.

In addition to its prime and upper two - thirds choice beef, which represents less than 4 percent of the country's total beef production, the company offers commodity choice and select meats and fresh ground beef.

The benefits of coconut sugar are making it a hot commodity in the health food world — this form of sugar does offer some trace nutrients and may have less of a dramatic impact on your blood sugar than other types of sweeteners.

Pure Life starting this week is launching a big new global campaign aimed at making its bottles less of a commodity by giving consumers more reasons to buy the brand than just the water inside.

He's earning less than $ 6 million per season through 2020, and if we get to July and he's continued his second - half surge from last year, he would be one of the more valuable trade commodities in baseball.

As I mentioned elsewhere, he was a less - than - guaranteed unknown commodity.

If you want to think of him as a commodity you can trade, you have to hope that next year is a bounceback year and that he finishes the season with something in the neighborhood of 1,200 yards and no less than 4.5 yards per carry.

Eggnog is a highly - prized commodity in our home, but the dairy - laden versions leave all of us feeling less than stellar after we splurge on this standard holiday treat.

Yet, driven by Moore's Law and the rapid advancement of processors, screens and other commodity components coming out of the smartphone supply chain, VR and AR are finally poised for mainstream adoption with some calling them nothing less than a «new medium of human experience.»

This is also less «subjective» than structural editing and more of a «commodity» in that there are plenty of qualified people that can be hired for reasonable costs.

Cheap Android phones are not as rare a commodity as they once were, with the likes of the Orange San Francisco and Huawei Blaze coming in at less than # 100.

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

For commodities used for approved purposes (for example, spirit used in the manufacture of medicines, ie medical purposes) that attract an amount less than the full rate of excise and are entered under a separate tariff or instrument (eg Item 2M) to indicate concessional use.

Resource and commodity stocks in general should make up only a limited portion of your portfolio — say less than 20 % for a conservative investor or as much as 30 % for an aggressive investor.

So basically everybody is making a pretty big assumption that they're always going to find someone to trade it with at a less volatile price than other commodities.

If an investor is looking to precious metals and commodities as a non-correlated asset class, U.S. Government Bonds have a much better track record with much less risk than precious metals and commodities.

Note that resource and commodity stocks in general should make up only a limited portion of your portfolio — less than 20 % for a conservative investor.

Grades are often accompanied by a schedule of discounts and premiums allowable for delivery of commodities of lesser or greater quality than the standard called for by the exchange.

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.

The stock market is less volatile than commodities.

I truly believe we tend to underestimate the true value of our time and that we sell this commodity for a lot less than what it's worth.

This middle class would be less well - off than what we presently see in America and Western Europe, at least not initially, but would manifest itself in a lot of demand for food, energy, and a variety of commodities and machinery as the middle class grew.

What I can say from a strategic perspective is that 1) I like a purchase of assets at historically low prices, 2) MFC has some expertise in the commodity business so this isn't completely outside their playing field, 3) perhaps, worst case, there could be a strategy to purchase the assets in bulk at a distress sale and then sell them off piecemeal for a profit, and 4) while this may be a role of the dice (who knows where gas prices will be a year from now) MFC is not betting the ranch; the total investment will be about CDN $ 75 million ($ 33 for the outstanding shares, $ 8 million for the warrants, $ 30 million additional investment and I've estimated $ 4 million for transaction costs), or less than 25 % of MFC's current cash hoard.

(1) The amount a price would be reduced to purchase a commodity of lesser grade; (2) sometimes used to refer to the price differences between futures of different delivery months, as in the phrase «July is trading at a discount to May,» indicating that the price of the July future is lower than that of May; (3) applied to cash grain prices that are below the futures price.

Concentration Risk: Because the ETNs are linked to an index composed of futures contracts on a single commodity or in only one commodity sector, the ETNs are less diversified than other funds.

Each contract market Member shall pay to NFA an assessment calculated on the basis of $.005 for each round - turn transaction in a commodity futures contract (purchase and sale or sale and purchase) executed on the contract market, except that in any NFA fiscal year, the total of such assessments paid by a contract market Member that had transaction volume of more than 20 percent of aggregate contract market transaction volume during that fiscal year shall not be more than $ 150,000 and the total of such assessments paid by a contract market Members that had transaction volume of 20 percent or less of aggregate contract market transaction volume during that fiscal year shall not be more than $ 100,000.

Factor in the sharp drop in the $ A since the start of the year and weakening outlook for commodity currencies, and they might even have to settle for less than book (pure speculation on my part).

The reality is that the vast majority of new Hedge funds or commodity trading advisers have longevity of less than 5 years.

But when inflation was low, defined here as less than 3 %, the first - generation commodity index generated an average return of − 7.3 %.

The benefit comes from the added diversification: the U.S. market is much bigger than Canada's, and it's less concentrated in commodities and banks.

BND works with the Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) to provide insurance coverage of not less than 90 percent on bulk commodity sales as well as processed ag product transactions.

Cereal grains, which were less profitable than other commodities, didn't often find their way to Iceland's remote fjords, and without access to much salt or naturally occurring spices, Viking settlers preserved what little they had by smoking it (often with sheep dung, as wood was scarce, too) or keeping it in sour whey.

Procedural generation also made it possible for the developers of Elite, David Braben and Ian Bell, to fit the entire game — including thousands of planets, dozens of trade commodities, multiple ship types and a plausible economic system — into less than 22 kilobytes of memory.

Contemporary African art has become an assortment of international commodities, no less than many of the artists discussed in this book — who live and work in countries / continents other than the ones in which they were born.

Put another way, Congress could raise all of the funds needed to support long - term investments in this Energy Security Trust by increasing royalties paid for producing oil and gas from public lands and waters by an amount less than the typical daily fluctuations of oil and gas commodity prices.