Sentences with phrase «of an agricultural commodity on»

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In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

May 2 - U.S. soybean sales to China ground to a halt after Beijing threatened tariffs on imports, the CEO of agricultural trader Bunge Ltd said on Wednesday, the latest sign of mounting trade tensions upsetting the global flow of commodities.

Between the start of the year and June 30, the Bloomberg Commodity Index contracted 4.03 percent, with energy weighing down on the mostly strong performances of precious and industrial metals and agriculturals.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.

This is an unlikely prospect given the range of issues to be tackled, further complicated by the recent entry to the negotiations of Japan and its insistence on protecting its five «sacred» agricultural commodities (rice, wheat, sugar, beef and dairy).

Our exchanges - CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX - offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.

The relative strength of farmland values has provided support for farm finances despite the ongoing pressure of low agricultural commodity prices on farm income.

Albeit in footnotes, but perhaps most significantly, the Coinflip case put the CFTC on record as concluding that Bitcoin, while a commodity, is not a currency.6 In summarizing the facts of the case, the CFTC explained that Bitcoin is «distinct from «real currencies»» of the United States or another country.7 In addition, the CFTC Order in the Coinflip settlement specifically noted that the Bitcoin options were not eligible for the CFTC's «trade option exemption» in CFTC Rule 32.3.8 Since the CFTC's trade option exemption can only be claimed for an option that would result in delivery of an «exempt» or agricultural commodity, this violation in effect serves as the CFTC's finding that it will not treat Bitcoin as a currency.

Lying on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the one - time backwater was transformed by an economic boom as the winding down of the conflict and a spike in commodity prices drew oil companies and multinational agricultural interests to areas that were previously off limits.

Green (unroasted) is one of the most traded agricultural commodities on earth.

To get serious about school food and its consequences, policy makers need to focus less on tinkering with funding formulas, surplus agricultural commodities, and % of calories from fat while focusing more on stopping kids from devouring plate after plate of hamburgers and cheesy noodles.

The second means was squeezing out dollars from the agricultural sector through increases of taxes and quotas on commodity exports.

This legislation solidifies the status of industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity under New York Agriculture and Markets Law and creates an industrial hemp working group to advise the State on research and policies concerning the crop.

By quantifying the impact of international trade on ecosystem services, the research team, led by Assistant Professor Roman Carrasco from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, showed that tropical countries are severely underpricing the agricultural commodities they produce, and thus effectively subisidising consumption by importing countries.

Regarding water access, the production of agricultural commodities along the food supply chain depends on the local availability of water through precipitation or irrigation.

It offers wide range of products across various asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.

There are four primary categories of commodities currently traded on the market: Energy (gasoline, oil, etc.), Metals (gold, silver, platinum, copper, etc.) Livestock (pigs, cows, etc.) and Agricultural (corn, cocoa, coffee, cotton, etc..)

Default on these loans is the primary method by which the government acquires stocks of agricultural commodities.

As of the close on February 28th, the top 2 ETFs in the basket of 25 for the 6 / 3/3 strategy were XLE U.S. Energy Sector SPDR DBC PowerShares DB Commodity Index DBA PowerShares DB Agricultural Commodities

PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund ETF, symbol DBA on New York, is based on an index made up of futures contracts on some of the most liquid and widely traded agricultural commodities, such as corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle and hogs.

Likewise, with the vast majority of agricultural commodities also enduring a pretty severe bear market, this portfolio allocation's also on hold — Donegal Investment Group is my primary & only disclosed holding here, and it's really another event - driven investment with two major disposals & a return of capital on the horizon.

The Commission of the European Communities, in a report on agricultural commodity speculation, defined backwardation and contango in relation to spot prices: «The futures price may be either higher or lower than the spot price.

CME Group boasts the widest range of agricultural (ags) commodity futures and options available on any U.S. exchange.

On her 4th and 6th items, I'd think there is a large correlation, both positive and negative, to the possession of resources that serve as inputs to our industrial economies, or the production of agricultural commodity exports.

«Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity» is a comprehensive report on the status of U.S. industrial hemp policy and highlights the fact that we are the only developed country to ban farmers from growing non-psychoactive industrial varieties of Cannabis.

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

Global Commodities Boom Fuels New Assault on Amazon (6/20/2008) With soaring prices for agricultural goods and new demand for biofuels, the clearing of the world's largest rain forest has accelerated dramatically.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

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.)

The warning by the world's largest trader of agricultural commodities comes ahead of the UN World Summit on Food Security in Rome, the first since 2002.

Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are leading on the sale of a 40 % stake in commodities business Glencore's agricultural arm to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for $ 2.5 bn (# 1.77 bn).