Nor is gold the only commodity to have shot up over the past year.
Commodity futures trade on what parties assume the year-end tally for certain crops will be.
Commodity prices, a barometer of excessive money creation, are depressed, except for OPEC-manipulated oil.
Over the last ten years Brazil has benefited from a commodity boom, but that boom is slowing.
Investors poured money into commodity strategies, corporate bond strategies, and Asia focused funds.
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He suddenly feels like a commodity, and he doesn't like that feeling one bit.
Their unconventional nature makes it hard to compare binary options with regular commodity contracts.
What about this commodity has temporarily given producers the greatest (albeit temporary) margin in history?
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity.
As noted earlier, the commodity soybeans he purchased were intended not for planting, but for consumption.
Just Thursday, as gold prices rallies strongly, so did other major raw commodity futures markets.
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For this reason, gold has been trading more like a currency and less like a commodity.
And investors have found more than one way to play the commodity boom this year.
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This curious beast combines commodity speculation with a wild bet on the Internal Revenue Code.
The resulting turmoil in commodity markets led a number of hedge funds to speculate widely.
The carbon market works like any other commodity market: companies trade and the market sets prices.
Remember, Russia is an oil and gas play no matter what you like about non-commodity fundamentals.
Sneakers were certainly a commodity cheap and standard and practical and generally not very good.
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Even so, though mining profits are down because of lower commodity prices, profit margins remain high.
They were down over 1%, still not the kind of rout experienced by commodity traders.
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The decline in commodity ETPs assets would have been worse if not for the precious-metals sector.
Oil was in a bubble of its own, well beyond the general commodity bubble.
But, it is steadier than any other commodity or good or service yet discovered.
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The Dow Jones Commodity Index, for instance, was down almost 10% through the end of November.
Commodity-linked companies led gains, with global miner BHP Billiton up 0.9% and Rio Tinto up 1.5%.
Dell has sold commodity servers for years and has a large footprint among enterprise customers.
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McGinn had the semiconductor group dump commodity chips in favor of digital signal processors.
Commodity costs have not affected the companies dramatically and international sales continue to deliver huge growth.
That's why the dollar gold price has fallen, and most commodity indexes are undergoing downward pressure.
There are two checks on current commodity values that make sustained speculative bubbles much less likely.
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