Sentences with phrase «than commodity parts»

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Since that report came out, we can count another upside to the «China syndrome»: Canada weathered the recession better than just about every other developed economy, thanks in part to a quick recovery in emerging economies and thus in commodity prices.

«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.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

As part of the downside risks, they include the possibility of further increases in oil and commodity prices; a stronger - than - anticipated slowdown in China; the unsettled fiscal situation in the United States and Japan; and the renewed weakness in housing markets in many OECD countries.

First, food and energy are a bigger part of CPI baskets in these countries than in the developed economies, so the impact there of the rises in commodity prices is larger.

To be entirely honest, a part of me really wants your new endeavour to fail if for no other reason than my fear that if it succeeds it might start a trend that infects other spiritual online communities with this idea that such communities can be treated as commodities to be bought and sold.

However, as a result of investors» pursuit of better - diversified portfolios and a recognition that systematic risk factors explain the majority of returns, the development of commodity alternative beta products is gathering pace... From our investigation in this study, there appears to be potential benefit in allocating into alternative beta strategies as part of a portfolio's commodity allocation, and we find that combining risk - based and factor - based commodity strategies has historically delivered higher return and lower risk than passive long - only strategies on their own.»

Their appeal is not only their non-correlation (or even negative correlation) with other parts of the portfolio, but their surprisingly low volatility: as a group, managed futures tend to have lower standard deviation and smaller drawdowns than both stocks and commodities.

Factor in the sharp drop in the $ A since the start of the year and weakening outlook for commodity currencies, and they might even have to settle for less than book (pure speculation on my part).

If it weren't for the boom in the early part of this decade, most AustEcon followers blindly betting on commodities would have been absolutely decimated — far worse than comon stock or corporate bond or government bond investors.

Rauschenberg rejected the «logical conclusion» of painting figured by the tricolor monochrome triptych as untenable, in part because the primary colors at which it arrived could not be considered any more «basic» than any other industrially produced commodity.

This is part one of a two - part series on the legislative landscape of carbontech, a class of processes, products, and services that convert waste carbon into commodities using processes that create fewer emissions than standard alternatives.

In one case, the CFTC alleged that Dillon Michael Dean from Colorado and his company, Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited, collected more than $ 1.1 million in bitcoin from over 600 people as part of a pooled investment vehicle for trading commodity interests.