And the amount of cash invested is tiny compared with the size of the total commodities market.
Either way, investors may be using the current downturn in the commodities market to reposition themselves into equities.
But if Casey's can't outwit the commodities market, it can at least shave a few pennies off costs.
Recoveries in any commodities market tends to be slower than sell-offs, Comiskey said.
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Investors still make up only a small part of the commodities market.
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The collapse of the commodities market in 2008 battered many hedge funds.
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In February the Forward Market Commission, the commodities market regulator, banned wheat and rice futures in a bid to cool down food-price inflation.
Anyone owning Windsor I or any value fund with major holdings in metals, paper, petrochemicals and oil should pray for a strong commodities market.
It offered an FM antenna, a video monitor, news, weather maps and delayed commodities market quotes to farmers and, later, to folks in financial and energy services.
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And Vega's traders began to more aggressively take out futures contracts on the commodities market in Malaysia, which, along with Indonesia, accounts for most of the world's palm oil production.
Inflationary symptoms are already rampant in the commodities market.
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Police Chief Dean Esserman of Providence, Rhode Island, said that for a time, his department saw a dramatic increase in copper thefts resulting from empty, foreclosed homes and the increased value of copper on the commodities market.
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Also, the investment narrative that has managers focusing on mid-cap names (and smaller) that cater to the domestic market rather than have their fortunes tied to the commodities market is a best seller among the four of them.
FarmLogs provides Chicago Commodities futures market information, video commentary, and related news.
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This year commodities and emerging market equities are proving to be constraints on the asset management returns for Goldman.
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You could go in and out of other commodities or the stock market to great effect.
At the time in question commodities were declining and market rates of interest were falling too.
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It is designed to imitate the futures market in commodities such as corn, wheat and steel.
Likewise, commodities traders may identify market manipulations such as the cornering of a futures market.
EU, put some of these commodities on the world market at half their production cost.
When the bond market stumbled, this bet (which the firm has since reversed) paid off handsomely, as did wagers on commodities and emerging-market currencies.
"This India development really caught the entire cotton industry and traders off guard because it came with no warning, " Phil Flynn, senior market and commodities analyst with PFG Best, told CNN last week.
The Midwestern states of the U.S. produce the majority of the cultural commodities on the global market, so the drought and concomitant rise in food prices is sure to place additional strain on the global economy.
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His unprecedented four-year popularity has been sustained by an incredible economic growth which has been at eight percent each year, mostly due to increases in prices of Argentinean commodities in the world market, a situation no different than the one Juan Domingo PerC3n experienced during the post World War II years.
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That's a nice way of saying that during recent years the Harvard Management Company, the university's investment subsidiary, diverted large portions of the university's endowment assets out of safe but poky low-yield securities (as of last June fixed-income investments accounted for only 16% of Harvard's portfolio) and into what this Forbes story describes as "exotic financial instruments": derivatives, hedge funds, private equity partnerships, commodities and emerging-market equities.
Farmland, itself, is another very compelling way to capitalize on the coming bull market in agricultural commodities.
All the morning session long in Sydney, both camps (inflation or deflation) saw food commodities in a continuing bull market.
Volatile gyrations in stocks, bonds, commodities show how quickly a market that rewards risk-taking one minute can viciously punish it the next.
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