If the dollar falls, the dollar price of a commodity must rise for its overall price in terms of a basket of global currencies to remain stable.
ETFs trade like a stock but track the price of the commodity, with prospectuses of the major metals ETFs saying that gold is put into storage to back the shares.
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Time tested economic theory tells us that in a free, unfettered market not constrained by onerous barriers to entry, the long term price of a commodity will approach its marginal cost of production.
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.
However, Johnson also looks for gold stocks to eventually catch up with the price of the commodity.
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The Energy Information Agency earlier this year estimated that exporting gas would raise the price of the commodity domestically.
They trade like a stock but track the price of the commodity, with metal put into storage to back the shares.
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In a nutshell, investors were able to buy an investment that traded like a stock but tracked the price of the commodity.
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That contracts based on the price of some commodity or asset have been around for about as long as mankind has been trading indicates that they are pretty useful.
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In such sales, the key issue for traders is to sell as quickly as possible so they can limit their losses before the price of the commodity falls even further.
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Banks around the world that held crude as an investment seem to have liquidated some of their positions en masse Tuesday, sending the price of the commodity plunging, but probably not for long.
Unlike the U.S., ethanol is made from sugar cane rather than corn, and the growing use of sugar as a fuel in Brazil and other countries in recent years helped drive the price of the commodity.
More recently the court upheld a federal law prohibiting the private cultivation of marijuana under the theory that even private cultivation has an impact on the price of a commodity that is subject to intensive federal regulation.
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Mining stocks can sometimes amplify the volatile movements of precious metals they gather from the earth, especially when there are dramatic movements in the price of the commodity itself combined with no reduction or even increases in the costs associated with mining the commodities themselves.
The size of the commodity basket will result in its aggregate price being relatively insulated from disruptions in the price of a given commodity.
There was a "clear correlation" between price of copper on commodity markets and rates of crime, he told MPs, suggesting cable theft was largely the work of "professional criminals".
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In the long run, the price of any given commodity should revert to the cost of producing an incremental unit of supply.
Indeed, all this proposal really does is fix the price of a particular commodity quoted in a particular currency.
And positive external shocks (such as a rise in the price of an exported commodity) tend to hasten growth that quickly fizzles out.
Before the smaller players drill, they must factor in such issues as their capital and lease costs, as well as the price of the underlying commodity.
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It is often assumed that periods of sharp commodity price increase are congruent with periods of overall price inflation.
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For the next 18 years, the Federal Reserve loosely followed a de facto price rule by targeting commodity prices including the price of gold and the foreign exchange value of the dollar.
The wartime cycle usually begins after a long period of commodity price deflation accompanied by an economic depression.
Crude oil is arguably the price leader of the raw commodity sector.
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It can cause the price of that important agricultural commodity to rise or fall almost as much as weather problems in the midwest.
All this for a cost that is certain to be 5 to 10 times the price of stocks and bonds for an indexed ETF, and much worse if one pays the huge price of some of the commodity partnerships being sold by the product manufacturers that have a bit of a conflict of interest on this topic.
Its purchases of foreign assets keep the cost of capital down and its appetite for raw materials keeps their price up, to the benefit of commodity producers wherever they sell their wares.
Dismal consumer confidence is cited as a source of concern, along with further commodity price instability - most notably the cost of energy.
The gold market has recently assumed leadership in influencing price direction of the entire raw commodity sector.
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Coca-Cola (KO) is one bellwether name that continues to impress with earnings and climb higher, even in the face of high commodity price headwinds.
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