For a car, of course you need raw crude oil, and then refineries to make gasoline and transportation networks to deliver it.
Inflation remains dormant at 2%, as raw materials and oil move into surplus.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
Unlike conventional plastics, their ultimate raw material is not oil, but maize.
In the days ahead, our train will pass a succession of monstrous eastbound freight services, groaning with raw materials: Albertan oil and yellow sulphur, British Columbian coal and lumber, but mostly grain from the prairies.
The first worry is about direct competition for things that are in more or less fixed supply: geopolitical supremacy, the world's oil and raw materials, the status and perks that come with being the issuer of a trusted international currency.
Speculators do play an important role in setting the price of oil and other raw materials.
For the past decade, Beijing has been shaping its foreign policy around securing long-term low-cost supplies of oil and other raw materials that it needs to sustain its economic development.
Admittedly these gains for developed economies are being partly offset by higher prices for oil and other raw materials, which China also needs to import (of which more in the next article).
American downturns have often caused the prices of oil and other raw materials to slump, but this time China's surging demand is propping up prices and fuelling booms in Brazil, Russia and the Middle East.
China runs a deficit with most of its trading partners, which supply oil, other raw materials and industrial components, and makes up for it by running large surpluses with its U.S. and European export markets.
It depends on imports of crude oil, grains, raw materials, and military equipment.
For 3, once nylon had been discovered and proven useful, the race was on, given the supply of cheap oil (the main raw material) post WWII, from the Arabian Gulf.
Two-thirds of global chemical production depends on oil or gas as its raw ingredient.
Still, crude oil remains a leader in the raw commodity sector.
Crude oil remains a leader in the raw commodity sector.
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The overall postures of the U.S. dollar index and crude oil remain underlying bearish factors for the raw commodity sector.
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What appears to be happening is that raw material producers like Russia and some of the oil producers in developing countries, are making a quiet but concerted effort to have a bigger share of the wealth which seems constantly to be radiating from the huge US economy.
The sell off in crude oil this week is also bearish for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.
Crude oil is arguably the price leader of the raw commodity sector.
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Countries such as Australia and Indonesia have fed China's growing appetite for commodities and raw materials such as coal, iron ore and palm oil.
China is a very big consumer of oil, of food, of all kinds of raw materials.
Prices extended losses in afternoon trading as the raw commodity sector took another beating Wednesday, led by crude oil.
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China's voracious demand for raw materials and U.S. appetite for gas and oil are driving the economy today, along with a domestic real estate boom.
Crude oil has been and will continue to be a leader in the raw commodity market sector.
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Brazilian farmers and trading companies ship raw soybeans over to China while Argentina ships the more expensive soymeal and soybean oil.
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If crude oil bulls continue to weaken that would be a bearish development for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.
If crude oil bulls start to weaken that would be a bearish development for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.
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