And Chinese steel mills have been forced to make purchases on the spot market.
One of the best barometers of this is spot market pricing for memory chips.
As well as SpotCloud (2011) the first commodity style cloud computing Spot Market.
These products are then sold to direct end users, marketers and in the spot market.
And iron ore is selling on the spot market at close to record prices.
After all, his country has been intervening in the local spot market to keep the real low.
The spot market is where oil companies buy (relatively) small volumes of oil for short term delivery.
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Why would the price of oil on the spot market be 40% than the cost of production?
He now buys gas on the spot market and sells it under the name Hollin Hall Automotive.
Without adequate regulation, new financial markets, such as the spot market for RINs, are vulnerable to fraud.
It apparently has enough hard- currency reserve from its murky export trade to buy on the spot market.
The company said the Fine Silicon charge reflects a sharp drop in the spot market price of polysilicon.
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Although a small spot LNG spot market always existed, it suddenly grew with the arrival of homeless Qatari volumes.
Silver Wheaton sells silver at spot market prices and does not hedge it.
Iron ore prices have been sliding in the spot market over the past few months as a result of weak demand.
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China will import cheap U.S. gas into Asia, basing prices on spot market fundamentals rather than expensive oil indexed gas contracts.
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Most online forex traders have accounts with retail off-exchange forex brokers, most of whom only offer trading in the forex spot market.
And would it be better to buy a part on the spot market or get a supplier to guarantee a certain quantity?
The company is insulated from fluctuations in the spot market for juice, especially from Napa and Sonoma, where prices have zoomed of late.
The spot market for agricultural commodities, which is fragmented among 7, 000 local markets or mandis, would also benefit from more centralised electronic exchanges.
Also according to the annual report, the company has traditionally purchased natural gas, through the use of forward purchase contracts, in the spot market.
Another approach is to borrow bullion to sell today in the spot market and repay the gold, with interest, from the mines' future production.
In principle, futures contracts should also allow farmers to lock in a price for their crops, insulating them from the vagaries of the spot market.
But there is no spot market: you cannot go to Toyota with your lanthanum and say, well, you use lanthanum in your batteries, buy mine!
In 2010 the big miners abandoned the benchmark and began to sell their ore on short-term contracts, at prices set on a nascent spot market.
China is also entitled to buy exclusively from the spot market.
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Russia has made abundantly clear it wants Qatar to focus on Asia, to sell its gas under long-term contracts and stop feeding European spot market liquidity.
In response to this, industrial customers for iron ore are asking for shorter iron ore shipment contracts that are priced closer to the spot market prices.
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However, the increased competition in the market has lead to a near term over-supply situation, pushing the spot market price of the flat rolled products down.
In the spot market, according to the web site DRAMeXchange, prices today jumped 5% in the spot market for DRAMs, with 10%-20% increased for NAND flash memory.
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