For one thing, fund-raising takes a lot of time almost as precious a commodity as cash at this stage in the race.
With massive layoffs and once-flush brokerage firms finding cash a less abundant commodity, disputes over getting paid have taken on new meaning.
Over the years the concept evolved from spending spree vouchers to gift cards to, well the ultimate voucher, cash: the universally tradable commodity.
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Don't expect sudden cash windfalls (from high commodity prices, for instance) to last, plan your spending cuts strategically, cut back on low priorities, but do not slash across the board.
It is a gauge designed in collaboration with Pring Research to reflect its proprietary investment strategy, which tactically allocates among stock, bond, commodity, and cash segments based on the phase of the economic business cycle.
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This makes it difficult for sellers and buyers to settle futures contracts by physical delivery of the commodity rather than by cash.
These are essentially presale of the physical commodity for an upfront cash payment and a guarantee to deliver the oil or gas at future dates.
Selling over the past couple of trading sessions has been violent and panicky, as steep declines in the price of bullion were accompanied by the breaking of key technical levels, sparking stop-loss selling, margin calls, and then risk managers and asset allocators offloading commodity holdings to build cash levels.
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In trying to wrap my head around the Karma hotspot a new prepaid 4G mobile hotspot service that relies on a novel model I keep coming back to the (often post-Apocalyptic) sci-fi stories where some other commodity or service has supplanted cash or gold as the chief currency.
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Also pushing up neutral, the pipeline of excess liquidity is still filling despite rate hikes, most visibly in commodity speculation and record levels of corporate cash.
Moreover, thanks to high commodity prices, mining firms are flush with cash.
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The sole desire of agricultural commodity speculators is to increase the amount of cash in their wallets and reduce the amounts in those of other such speculators.
"For example, 'mules' are being used - placing money in condoms and swallowing them - because protecting cash has become almost as important as concealing the illegal commodity being smuggled, " it said.
Investing more thought and cash in the better use of the world's most valuable commodity is surely worthwhile.
And cash, today's currency of choice, is a remarkably cheap commodity thanks to low interest rates and abundant liquidity.
Spectra collects a large portion of the economic rents paid to move gas to end users as it controls over 19, 000 miles of pipelines and roughly 7% of natural gas storage capacity in the U.S. What I like is that approximately 80% of cash flows are fee-based while the remaining 20% are linked to commodity prices.
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Not only would gold companies benefit from any rises in the price of the commodity itself, but many senior miners are now using a portion of their cash flow to pay dividends, Holmes said.
As the commodity ETFs, mutual funds, and Indexes attract more and more investors, their cash positions increase.
Higher futures prices could have sent a signal to commodity producers, who then decided to hoard their stocks rather than sell them in the cash market.
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NCDEX, says that if buyers could insist on taking actual delivery of the commodity, it would make it harder for speculators to manipulate prices in search of a cash profit.
Though he wasn't there at the time, Meyer says Harvard Management bought the commodity and foreign stock derivatives as a way to get exposure to those asset classes while freeing up cash to put to work elsewhere.
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