Sentences with commodity
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C c - The government increased prices on several basic commodities like bread and meat.
- The corporation provided $150 million to finance the exports of various commodities and food goods including cotton and tobacco.Commodities widely traded on exchanges around the world are agricultural products and raw materials such as oil and copper.A commodity is an item that is traded on the market, such as wheat, gold, silver, oil, coffee, or sugar.
- But this call to create cloned human embryos for research would undoubtedly make a commodity of human life.
- The Australian dollar opened lower as investors moved away from risk assets, leading to falls in equities and commodity prices.
- And Slade said: "It really makes me sad that football club chairmen and boards seem to have lost that most precious commodity - patience. "Sam's sacking at Newcastle had, I suppose, been on the cards for a while, but it is really ridiculous to fire a manager after such a short time.
- The price of crude oil is determined in continuous trading between professional players in World's many commodities exchanges.
- The other two negatives for the dollar are that commodity prices are probably close to peaking.
- People trade commodities when then buy and sell them. If they buy commodities from another country, they import them, and if they sell them to another country, they export them.
- Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity.