Sentences with phrase «rather than the commodity»

And he has a unique way of operating as a customer service company rather than a commodity business.

BCD is organized as an open - ended ETF, rather than a commodity pool, so taxable investors pay the usual long - and short - term capital gains rates on sale and avoid receiving an annual K - 1 tax form.

For those more comfortable with tracking indexes rather than the commodity itself, then this may be a better option.

Since most of these companies book their revenue on volume rather than commodity prices, the drop in oil prices hasn't been catastrophic.

Lotus Food has reinvented these popular Asian specialty noodles using healthier organic heirloom and whole grain rice rather than commodity - grade white rice.

«Moving from transition metal elements to synthesized molecules is a significant advancement because it links battery costs to manufacturing rather than commodity metals pricing» said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this research.

It is only when education is treated as a right rather than a commodity that is bought and profited from that the can system change.

So what can we do to help clear the smoke and mirrors used by commercial breeders who like to pretend their dogs and puppies are much loved family pets rather than commodities?

But even though he believed in doing all the work himself, and treated each client like a client rather than a commodity, he could only charge so much.

Not exact matches

Similarly, the basics of IT infrastructure, the printers and routers, have become throwaway commodities, designed to be replaced rather than repaired.

«Our focus is on building a loyal base of caregivers who feel like they're a part of the team rather than nomadic commodities,» she says.

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

It is these commodity servers rather than pricier name - brand Dell and HPE boxes that Huawei will likely face in the market.

Rather than inefficiently dictating how to use a resource from the top, this approach allows those in the trenches to make the best decisions with ample information about the scarcity and value of the key commodity — time.

Still, Betterment's philosophy is that REITs and commodities held on their own — rather than within an ETF — could overexpose your portfolio.

However, proving that price manipulation occurred can be challenging in the commodities markets, said Professor Verstein, so the CFTC sometimes settles cases rather than letting them play out in the courts.

(As an aside, equilibrium means «no tendency to change,» fiat means deriving its value from law rather than some underlying commodity backing, and fractional reserve means that banks hold only a fraction of deposits on reserve, loaning the rest out.).

Sure, this is relatively dumb money, but that's where those angel and incubator relationships come in: if startups increasingly feel they have the relationships and advice they need, then growth funding is basically a commodity, so why not take dumb cheap money sooner rather than later?

Rather than simply tying the petro to the value of its natural resources, Venezuela could devise a scheme wherein the cryptocurrency is convertible into real commodities.

Also, it spreads the odds of making a discovery to a portfolio of multiple properties and commodities, rather than just focusing on one which may or may not work out.

They use the convenience yield model and associated monthly commodity «dividends» (benefit of holding gold rather than gold futures) to derive gold's fundamental value.

More and more economic data seem to signal deflation rather than the opposite and this is a Central Banker's worst nightmare (as it is for a commodity bull).

The «index» that I constructed isn't a perfect proxy for the front - month version of DBC — a perfect index would take into account the weights of each commodity every day, rather than apply static weights based on a single day.

Measuring trade in gross terms, rather than examining the value - add inputs from countries along the supply chain, fails to tell us the whole story of where commodities actually came from and where they went.

This financial instrument for a future's contract is settled by cash rather than by delivering the commodity.

This suggests that for investors, the better opportunity may be in the companies that produce the commodities, rather than in the commodities themselves.

For example, if Bitcoin is not a currency, then Bitcoin forwards and Bitcoin swaps that involve the exchange of Bitcoin for another currency will not fall under the statutory definitions of the more lightly regulated foreign exchange forwards or foreign exchange swaps.10 Likewise, retail trading of Bitcoin derivatives will be limited to designated contract markets, rather than subject to the retail foreign exchange dealer regulations.11 Treating Bitcoin as a commodity that is not a currency dovetails with the stances taken by other U.S. regulators such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)(virtual currency does not have all of the attributes of real currency) 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (Bitcoin investments are investment contracts because Bitcoin is a form of money) 13 and the Internal Revenue Service (treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes).14

If the media industry, in particular, continues the current race to the bottom on price, rather than focusing on business value, it will forever be a commodity.

Contango simply means that investors are willing to pay a premium today to be sure of the price they'll get in the future, rather than waiting a month or quarter and then buying the commodity in the real - time «spot» market.

ETNs are designed to deliver the total return on a broad index or individual commodity, but rather than being structured as pools of securities that the fund itself owns, they are instead unsecured bonds (notes) issued by a firm that agrees to deliver the return of the index it tracks.

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...?

I much prefer A.W. Tozer's definition, though: «Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a living God», seeing it, myself, as a commodity He produces within us, rather than one we, ourselves, create.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

I will have to do some more thinking though to see if I see others as a commodity to be «used» rather than as people with gifts to be utilized / used.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Life becomes an achievement earned or a commodity purchased rather than a gift gratefully received and shared.

The growing influence of institutional investors and commercial interests not genuine to the information sector tends to lead to an emphasis on the profitability of the commodity, rather than on its socio - cultural quality.

It is important to view power as an ever growing resource, rather than a scarce commodity for which we must compete.

On genetically enhancing a child's IQ or physical strength, he comments: «Enhancement could be seen as an act of love and concern, rather than a narcissistic effort to make the child a product or commodity.»

Faith communities, Lindbeck charges, have become purveyors of this kind of religious commodity rather than intentional communities that socialize their members into comprehensive forms of life.

CCA's cost increases are lower than those at Schweppes because CCA pays for soft drink concentrate in Australian dollars rather than US dollars and hedges its commodity and currency exposure.

He notes, «mainstream supermarket coffees generally fail to provide much option for those of us who want to recognize and reward coffee growers as our colleagues rather than exploit them as unacknowledged drones in the vast global commodity hive.»

As of yet, no one has productised packaging, it still remains a commodity and a medium, rather than a message.

Sure you'd like your OC to be an asset rather than a neutral commodity but I don't see many comments on his inability to lead men and I definitely don't mind creative plays.

One solution is to treat plastic as a reusable material rather than as a disposable commodity that's quickly discarded.

The state's niche producers are supplying everything from off - season wasabi and lavender teddy bears to fresh salmon and live abalone and see this as the future, rather than low value, bulk commodities.

Researchers say that restrictions should target export commodities rather than staple foods.

Just as rare spices from the east are regarded as valuable commodities today, Fuller says, the wheat at Bouldnor Cliff might have been symbolically charged and seen as «rare, exotic, and valuable,» rather than something to be eaten daily.

The women of Nigeria are opposing this custom as it makes them feel like a commodity rather than a person.