Sentences with phrase «than commodities like»

Bitcoin has outpaced every single nation - state issued fiat currency by miles and continues to perform better than commodities like precious metals.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

Nationally, more than $ 660 million in pork — including «variety meats» like ears, hooves and organ meat — was exported to China last year, according to Tamara Nelsen, senior commodities director for the state farm bureau.

Alberta, like petro - economies everywhere, will soon have more pressing problems than simply managing the boom and bust cycles that define the commodity world.

«I like commodities more than anything else for this base - case world,» he concluded.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

Will cutting rates really boost the sectors that did much of the damage to April's GDP report like resources (can't influence commodities), utilities (can't influence weather, with utilities output just coming off a large surge in Jan / Feb) and manufacturing (bigger challenges than CAD)?

So, I think that it's going to be very hard to find, other than special situations like in the commodities markets, beyond that is going to be very difficult to find ideas where you can profit while returning to an inflationary environment.

But it's certainly something to monitor given that bitcoin has behaved more like a commodity than a currency throughout its short history.

Additionally, milk that's used for fresh milk (and its products like butter or cheese) attracts a marginally higher premium than the milk being used for commodity products like milk powder.

It is of Australia and its labelled like a battle plan with dozens of stickers indicating locations of more than 300 managers, 30,000 clients and the commodity types of certain areas, from cotton and cattle to fat lambs and cherries.

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.

When we combine the on - farm observations with others beyond the farm gate, like northward - moving ranges of songbird species and shifts in important pollinators, a pattern begins to emerge that is steadier than commodity prices (Chen et al. 2011).

I've beaten every one of those challenges but now at 67, while I am a rare commodity (only 5 - 7 % survive Pan Can), I feel more empty than I like at the same time my insurance company, dropped my favorite doctor from their list of physicians I can see.

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

There we silently reflected on what Africa and the US might be like today if trade had been limited to commodities rather than human chattel.

And books are far more than just another commodity like Twinkies or carburetors.

Cheap Android phones are not as rare a commodity as they once were, with the likes of the Orange San Francisco and Huawei Blaze coming in at less than # 100.

In one poll, more than 60 % of respondents said they didn't buy into things like hedge funds or commodities because they weren't clear on how those products worked.

Price action is more important in markets like Forex and commodities than SPX.

We like a commodity stock's market cap to be no more than half the value of those assets.

Precious metal markets are rarely backwardated to any appreciable extent, as commodities like gold, platinum, silver, and palladium are better known for their monetary qualities rather than as industrial inputs.

What I can say from a strategic perspective is that 1) I like a purchase of assets at historically low prices, 2) MFC has some expertise in the commodity business so this isn't completely outside their playing field, 3) perhaps, worst case, there could be a strategy to purchase the assets in bulk at a distress sale and then sell them off piecemeal for a profit, and 4) while this may be a role of the dice (who knows where gas prices will be a year from now) MFC is not betting the ranch; the total investment will be about CDN $ 75 million ($ 33 for the outstanding shares, $ 8 million for the warrants, $ 30 million additional investment and I've estimated $ 4 million for transaction costs), or less than 25 % of MFC's current cash hoard.

In fact, if you hold a fund which rolls over monthly, like the popular USO, for the long term (more than several months) you aren't even going long on the commodity price so much as you're going short on the rate of change of the commodity price.

On the one hand, the return on investment is much different than with stocks or bonds and the fluctuation of commodity prices can be affected by things like supply and demand, inflation, and the condition of the economy as a whole.

To summarize, I like stocks better than commodities for the coming year, although my long - term model has GDX in the top five.

Both are ETNs, or exchange traded notes which are similar to ETFs but structured differently and issued as senior debt like a bond rather than equity in the underlying commodity like a stock.

Gold as an investment is no safer than pork bellies; it's just a commodity, just like any other, and I wouldn't recommend that new investors go straight for commodities.

You can also trade futures on markets other than commodities, like stock indices.

After spending the vast majority of her life as a money - making commodity rather than a cherished family member, she is still learning what it's liked to be loved.

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?

Puppies bred in these factory - like settings are regarded as nothing more than a cash crop commodity, and despite the poor conditions in which the breeder dogs are forced to live, puppy mills are still legal in every state.

Being in the development and services industry, I can tell you I appreciate it a lot when someone treats me like more than a tool, or a throwaway commodity that can be replaced on a whim.

Louis Redshaw — 1320 GMT: Most companies, rather than view carbon as a risk to manage like other commodities they have exposure to (for example natural gas and electricity), currently view the EU ETS as an irritation.

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.

In October 2017, the BOK's governor Lee Ju - yeol stated that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) would be regulated as a commodity in the country, rather than as a currency:

Hacked and others have long speculated that many leading crypto assets behave more like commodities than currencies, although projects like Litecoin, Stellar, bitcoin cash and others are looking to change that perception.

When you ask someone if they have had any experience with a Realtor, lawyer, home inspector, contractor, ditch digger (you fill in the blank), they almost always go right into their, or their relative / friend / co-worker's negative experience, not the positive, — it's on Realtors individually to demonstrate integrity and earn respect, «and the public shops around» — like they have always done for services & commodities, «I still get to make as much or more than you» — really, how do you know?