Sentences with phrase «than a commodity by»

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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.

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.

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.

As I've said that the 10 yr bond crossed over 3.0 % means the US$ will be going to be weaker and weaker further and further by the 1st half of 2020 yr:) Also, the commodity price esp WTI will be going up to the level of 70 - 80 $ no later than 1st half of May (at the earliest), or no later than 2nd week of June, and then it will be in the range to the end of Trump Era:)

The Teucrium Agricultural ETF (NYSEArca: TAGS) was the best - performing fund in the week ended Thursday, with gains of more than 16 percent, followed closely by the PowerShares DB Commodity Long ETN (NYSEArca: DPU), which rallied 13.3 percent this week.

An income profile for the typical U.S. wage earner shows the degree to which the cost of living now reflects FIRE sector costs more than prices for commodities produced by labor.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

The range of available commodities is also more extensive than what is usually being offered by other brokers.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

The worst among the bunch are a pair of sugar ETPs, the Teucrium Sugar Fund (CANE) and the iPath Pure Beta Sugar ETN (SGAR), which fell by more than 15 % each, even as commodities as a whole performed quite well in 2018.

U.K. stocks slid the most in more than three weeks, led by commodity producers, as a private report showed that Chinese manufacturing expanded at a slower - than - expected pace last month.

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

In simple terms, the EFPs and PNTs enable the counterparties a Comex futures contract or LBMA forward to settle the contract in an acceptable form other than the actual physical commodity as required by the contract specifications (e.g. one gold futures contract requires the delivery of a 100 oz.

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

The Bank's Commodity Price Index (in SDRs) rose by 5 per cent during the March quarter, to a level 21 per cent higher than the trough reached in September 1993 (Graph 26); it then eased back a little in April.

It has been a little stronger than the other currencies in the group, as international investors have been attracted to the currency by the prospect of strongly rising commodity prices and the positive interest rate differential.

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 4.3 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to October, driven by rises in the prices of rural goods and base metals, to be 1.7 per cent higher than a year ago (Graph 48).

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 3.8 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to January, to be nearly 10 per cent higher than its recent trough in May 2003 and nearly 23 per cent higher than the low levels prevailing in 1999 (Table 11; Graph 48).

In Australian dollar terms, commodity prices rose by 6.6 per cent over the three months to April, and they were up by more than 12 per cent over the year.

The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed market and emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed market stocks would underperform U.S. stocks in 2017.

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.

It's not that the price of commodities are always stable, but due to the fact that they are physical goods that are needed by many, they do tend to hold their value better than other assets.

The widest expansion this year was made by none other than crude oil, the worst - performing commodity of 2014.

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...?

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.

Sunglasses are a sought - after commodity in this tropical town, and the volunteers were suddenly surrounded by a mob of more than 500 people.

Prices of anhydrous milk fat and skim milk powder were also up by more than 20 per cent as overall prices across all three commodities rose 23.2 per cent.

Global dairy prices leapt up in January rising more than any other group of food commodities in the monthly Food Price Index, published by the UN food agency.

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.

However, only slightly more than 10 percent of foods used in Chicago public school lunchrooms are purchased by the USDA for the commodity program.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisited).

there is a larger than anticipated impact of our financial crisis and deleveraging on potential output; there has been the global commodity price shocks, exacerbated here by our depreciated exchange rate; and, of course, there is the ongoing uncertainty in the eurozone which is now acknowledged to be having an impact on growth and investment across the world, from the US to China.

In Ghana today, when it comes to politics, it seems absolute truth is gradually becoming a rare commodity whilst morals are now being determined by popularity and political correctness than by the simple truth.

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.»

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.

For example, by directing teachers to focus more individual attention on each student — or to encourage them to study and learn at their own pace, focusing on topics of their choosing — we might be lending credence to the notion that public education is a private commodity rather than a public good.

The Xoom with Android 3.0 is the blueprint for nearly every not - iPad to come, a preview of the tablets that will crowd shelves by the end of this year from nearly every major purveyor of commodity consumer electronics, surrounding the churning hordes that bob through fluorescent - lit big box stores, blinking about how they're bigger, faster, more open than the iPad.

«The institutional interest we see in commodities is driven much more by the desire for diversification than it is by the view that tactically commodity prices will go up in the short term,» said Bob Greer, real return product manager at America's giant bond investor PIMCO, which manages over $ 14 billion in commodity - linked strategies.

Investors should understand that because of the complex financial methods used by commodities funds, they may have more risk than simply the value of the underlying assets.

In my opinion, you're in a precious metals «bubble» when rising prices are driven by the people's desire the own the commodity without a reason other than «the market is going up».

Gold prices are affected by sentiment rather than just supply and demand fundamentals, which is what determines the price of most commodities.

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.

Premium (1) The additional payment allowed by exchange regulation for delivery of higher - than - required standards or grades of a commodity against a futures contract.

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.

For example, many investors drawn to emerging market bond funds in recent years by payouts that were sometimes more than twice that of U.S. Treasuries have experienced double - digit losses over the past 12 months, as growth prospects for emerging market economies have begun to fade in the face of China's economic troubles and falling commodity prices.

The fund may invest in securities issued by domestic or foreign companies; in fixed - income securities that are investment grade and below investment grade, but limits its investments in below - investment - grade securities to no more than 10 % of its net assets; may include real estate investment trusts, investments that provide exposure to commodities (such as ETFs or natural resources companies), and derivatives, including futures and options.

The amount of an instrument (equity, future, option commodity etc.) that they can buy in one day will be governed by a number of things, most notably how much cash or credit they have (they normally have more cash and cash equivalents on hand than most human beings will see in their life), how much they can afford to move the market price (including how fair they think the valuation is currently) and the liquidity of the market for the instrument as a whole.

With more than 100 commission - free ETFs expertly chosen by independent research firm, Morningstar, which includes equity funds, commodity funds, international funds, and bond funds, all with economical expense ratios, the options are plentiful to create a diverse portfolio trading at a reasonable cost.

Despite commodity price volatility, CN raised its dividend by 20 % earlier this year and expects to continue increasing its dividend at a faster rate than overall earnings growth.

It gains exposure to asset classes by investing in more than 100 futures contracts, futures - related instruments, forwards and swaps, including, but not limited to, equity index futures and equity swaps; bond futures and swaps; interest rate futures and swaps; commodity futures, forwards and swaps; currencies and currency futures and forwards, either by investing directly in those Instruments, or indirectly by investing in the Subsidiary that invests in those Instruments.