Sentences with phrase «soft commodities as»

Nick acts for banks and trading companies in transactions around the world and his experience includes transactions involving energy, metals and soft commodities as well as equipment and processed goods and semi-processed.

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Food makers such as Kraft and Mondelez have reported soft volume as they've boosted the prices of their products to help offset the higher commodity costs.

As its costs of commodities and food skyrockets, its citizens» restive ambitions are thwarted by the limits facing all consuming nations, and its aging populace catches up with it, then China's resources will be stretched too thin to construct a Grand Empire with decisive hard and soft power.

Key commodities traded globally such as crude oil, gold, copper and softs like wheat are typically priced in dollars, with liquidity often favor the major exchanges in New York, London and Chicago as centers of trade.

Unfortunately, the weakness in producer prices (as well as industrial commodity prices) is essentially a reflection of soft demand.

However, I do think the downside is limited from these depressed prices as the soft commodities remain weak.

As a matter of fact, economic downturn hardly affects the consumption of juice drink because it is a commodity that is as affordable and considered a healthy substitute to soft drinks and other processed juiceAs a matter of fact, economic downturn hardly affects the consumption of juice drink because it is a commodity that is as affordable and considered a healthy substitute to soft drinks and other processed juiceas affordable and considered a healthy substitute to soft drinks and other processed juices.

With respect to soft commodities, the weather can also play a significant role as we've seen with the YTD performance of coffee.

The opportunities for hedge funds to find dislocations and arbitrage opportunities are far greater in soft commodities such as beef compared with hard commodities such as iron ore because the supply is more dispersed.

Merricks Capital, which specialises in soft commodities, helped to create derivative contracts with the major US hamburger companies to allow them to hedge the cost of Australian beef while allowing them to profit from anomalies in global beef prices, such as the perceived high price of Australian cattle.

For this, Barry Callebaut created a joint venture with P.T. Comextra Majora, a diversified soft commodities trader and exporter of cocoa from Indonesia as well as a long - standing business partner of Barry Callebaut, as -LSB-...]

Commodity ETFs invest in various commodities such as natural resources and precious metals, energy, agricultural goods, industrial metals, hard assets and soft commodities.

Today, futures market participants trading futures to hedge price risk exposure may include any commercial entity that produces or buys any of the commodities such as grains and livestock, the «softs» including cocoa, sugar, cotton, coffee, and orange juice; energies including crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and natural gas; and metals such gold, silver, platinum, and copper.

For example, soft commodities markets, such as sugar, soybean, wheat, and corn, which are perishable and seasonal, frequently have backwardated curves to reflect the associated cost of carry.

There is also a range of soft commodities such as Coffee, Wheat, and Sugar that you can trade with.

DAG — PowerShares DB Agriculture Dble Long ETN — Up 27 % — As would be expected with the strong performance of the underlying non-leveraged soft commodities ETNs, DAG was up huge last week at 27 %.

Anne Senstad's site - responsive installation «Soft Geometry - Liquid Commodity» aims to comment on and highlight the role of Chinatown as a cultural antecedent to New York and as one of its last bastions of authenticity.

Precisely because art can function as multiple things at once - as an object for discourse, an artifact, and a commodity - it is both simultaneously elusive and specific: a soft target.

We have an extensive track record in the financing of the production, export, transport, warehousing and sale and purchase of commodities including oil and oil products; bio fuels; chemicals; precious and base metals; soft commodities such as coffee, sugar, cocoa, grains, paper, cotton and textiles; and related assets such as carbon credits.

For example, gold is always priced in U.S. dollars, as are soft commodities such as wheat and grain.