Sentences with phrase «more than a commodity»

That leads to EHC's next challenge: convincing the world that handrails are more than commodities.

All of which is seen through Laura's eyes as she provides a ground level view of what goes on around her for the viewer, as she becomes little more than a commodity to the criminals with her body (notice how it is described, by the way) used and abused, with little choice in her actions.

It gave me hope for the future of movies as something more than a commodity.

Are they all just suits who see vehicles as nothing more than a commodity to be sold?

And frankly, so do the thousands of independent booksellers who have always treated books as much more than a commodity.

We often overlook these animals as being little more than the commodities they provide for humans, but as you can see, they are so, so much more.

Sadly, there are those who treat puppies as little more than a commodity to be brought and sold for a profit.

The dogs in puppy mills are no more than a commodity, a cash crop to be produced and harvested while spending as little as possible to maximize profits as far as possible.

The tragedy of puppy mills is that they don't care about the animals more than a commodity to be sold.

In puppy mills, dogs are treated as nothing more than commodities, forced to live in tiny wire cages and deprived of basic needs such as water and food.

SoulCalibur II's lengthy campaign, Weapon Master Mode, was more than a commodity to the Arcade classic or competitive modes.

Solanas, in her testimony, gave as her reason for shooting the artist the control he had exerted over her, his inability to see his subjects as anything more than commodities.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Bitcoin as a commodity has been more stable this year than in the past, though it certainly fluctuates more than the average corporate stock.

Now that the internet has been changing our lives for more than 20 years, information has gone from a rare resource to 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.

That's lower than other miners, which means it's making more cash off the commodity than many of its competitors.

«Shale is the reason we're not trading over $ 100 a barrel, way more than $ 100 a barrel,» said Francisco Blanch, global head of commodities and derivatives at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

That formula is more of a sure thing than advertising ever was, and the more of a commodity you think you sell, the truer it will be.

CALGARY — Commodity prices are tanking and they're bringing Canadian markets down with them, but experts say some provinces will be feeling the pinch more than others.

Oil dropped sharply in March, bringing down Hall along with others including Andurand Commodities Fund, which through the end of July had lost more than 15 %, according to a source close to the firm.

Porras now sells every El Faro bean that meets Starbucks» standards to the company for $ 1.45 a pound, about 35 cents a pound more than the coffee fetches on the commodities market.

After a five - year bear market in most metal commodities, miners finally had a bull run in 2016, with some stocks» prices more than doubling off their lows.

But Schembri's speech showed that the Bank of Canada remains more concerned about the 18 % plunge in Canadian commodity prices this year than the 10 % jump in the average national resale price of homes since 2013.

Darren Woods, who has worked at Exxon for more than 20 years, has helped expand the refining business at a time when the company's core exploration and production business has been rocked by low commodity prices.

«That becomes a quite valuable commodity,» Mortimer says, adding that the valuation is more attractive than some of the IPO companies listing on the NYSE.

It might seem unimportant to know exactly why copper has been added to the list of sick commodities, but if it is more than a fright over excess supply and slack demand then we could be on the verge of a rerun of the GFC.

Over the last few years, there has been an increasingly competitive battle for people's attention, and there is more noise than ever as brands clamor for the all - important commodity of attention.

Cloud management software, like what CliQr sells, is a hot commodity among companies looking to save money by being more flexible about their data center operations than being locked into a single vendor.

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.

Small businesses were a much sought - after commodity during 2017, with the number of sales transactions rising more than 26 percent from the previous year.

For Worth, rather than pile into the commodity itself, investors could stand to profit more from gold - related stocks, specifically the gold miners.

April 12 - Commodity trader Noble Group Ltd said on Thursday that more than 75 percent of creditors holding the majority of its senior debt have accepted its $ 3.4 billion restructuring plan.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- After more than a year of scaling back in commodities, Morgan Stanley is ready to expand.

Two - thirds of our commodities and more than half our non-commodity exports end up in America.

Freeport - McMoRan (FCX) has suffered more pain from collapsing commodity prices than most other companies.

«Production proved even more resilient than the rig count: it took 35 weeks after the rig count started to decline before production began its own decline,» said Societe Generale commodity strategists in a recent note.

There's much more to Canada than commodities though.

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

«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.

As with all commodities, palladium prices depend on supply and demand - if there is more supply than demand, prices will fall.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

While coal experiences more ups and downs than other commodities — the weather can have an effect on prices — the black rock has been in use for centuries.

Considering that Canada's oil and gas exports to the U.S., worth $ 92 billion in 2010, account for more than half of Canadian production of those commodities — and nearly a quarter of Canada's total merchandise exports — this is an ominous turn of events for Canada as well.

«The economy here is much more diversified than it was, say, 20 years ago and not as vulnerable to fluctuating commodity prices,» explains Michael Kehoe of Fairfield Commercial Real Estate.

Time is the most valuable commodity you have, so don't commit to giving more than you can.

At the end of September, the commodity climbed to $ 59 a barrel ($ 58 in October), meaning the international Brent blend has more than doubled since the dark days of 2016.

Worth noting: Even more than in years past, resource and energy companies dominate the list, reflecting an overall bullish outlook for commodities that shows no sign of abating.

Other commodity markets are behaving similarly because there is more supply than a sluggish global economy can absorb.