Sentences with phrase «traditional commodities»

For example, in traditional commodity markets, farmers often sell futures contracts for the crops and livestock they produce to guarantee a certain price, making it easier for them to plan.

Sputnik: Reports are developing that individuals are selling Bitcoin and buying more traditional commodities such as Gold and Silver... As Bitcoin becomes labeled more as a fragile bubble, could we see a potential resurgence in the buying of Gold and Silver?

From an investment point of view, you may have been safer investing in the digital currency as opposed to more traditional commodities such as silver that in fact lost nearly 40 % of its value in the last five years.

While some asset classes like traditional commodities and fiat currencies are more stable, it's the high risk / high return nature of cryptocurrency investing that has fuelled the explosion in its popularity in recent months.

For one thing, while Hormel has done an admirable job diversifying away from traditional commodity meats and into higher margin value - added brands such as Jennie - O, Justin's, and Applegate, 20 % of its product mix is still in relatively commoditized meats.

Our attorneys are also experienced in traditional commodities transactions and exchange - listed futures and options, counseling major exchanges, commercial banks, insurance companies, portfolio managers, investment banks, traders and advisers.

Traditional commodity ETFs such as the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (GSG) simply hold long positions in various crops, metals and energy products, and if commodity prices fall, so does the value of the fund.

Although contract trading began with traditional commodities such as grains, meat and livestock, exchange trading has expanded to include metals, energy, currency and currency indexes, equities and equity indexes, government interest rates and private interest rates.

For example, they could only deal with Fiat currency and other more traditional commodity backed assets to start with.

Mr. Lei argues that the contemporary era comprises an epoch in which «the strategic significance of [traditional commodities such as] oil and grain... may not be so important [now, as] the game between countries has entered [the] virtual» domain.

Such is the lucky fate of anyone who wanders into «When The Cat's Away, Abstraction», a new group show highlighting works that begin from digital sources and end in traditional commodities.

It is hoped that it will encourage Africa's trade to diversify away from its traditional commodity exports outside of the continent, the volatile prices of which have hurt the economies of many countries.

Anyone attempting to apply a traditional commodity - type analysis to the gold market would have trouble explaining the above chart.

Managed Futures are an alternative investment asset class that allows investors to simultaneously participate in multiple global market sectors such as currencies, energies, metals, short and long term interest rates, domestics and international stock indices and traditional commodities.

Cboe said that since Bitcoin ETFs were similar to traditional commodity - based ETFs, no intervention was required.

«As the volumes continue to grow, especially on regulated U.S. markets, the overall spot bitcoin market looks more and more like a traditional commodity market and Cboe continues to believe that the spot market is sufficiently liquid to support a bitcoin ETP.»

«Through a combination of financial market expertise and innovation, EMX will provide a new level of sophistication to how cryptocurrencies — and traditional commodities — are traded and cleared.

«As the volumes continue to grow, especially on regulated US markets, the overall spot Bitcoin market looks more and more like a traditional commodity market and CBOE continues to believe that the spot market is sufficiently liquid to support a Bitcoin exchange - traded products (ETPs),» Concannon added.