Over the last ten years Brazil has benefited from a commodity boom, but that boom is slowing.
He suddenly feels like a commodity, and he doesn't like that feeling one bit.
For this reason, gold has been trading more like a currency and less like a commodity.
You would think that a commodity under that kind of pressure would experience significant losses.
Clearly, mining production and production growth can overwhelm the odds even in a commodity bear market.
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Haugerud decided to turn her fund, already heavily invested in commodities, into a commodity play.
So right now, basically, anything is a commodity except for an onion or a movie.
This is the typical set-up for a commodity pool: Hot trader, big potential profits, undisclosed losses.
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Fourth, Professor Crawford assumes that competition must produce a commodity service to be considered competition.
Not a commodity, money is merely a measuring stick that facilitates the real exchange of wealth.
It was as close as you could get to a commodity in IT services.
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In the latter case, electric power is one of several costs required to manufacture a commodity.
The theory was that Internet search would become a commodity, but that well-made content was king.
One result is to turn what was once a commodity product into a self-contained service.
Virtual water is a term used for the water involved in producing a commodity or a service.
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Putting some of that credit (high demand) into a commodity market (limited supply) will drive prices up.
The most elementary principle of economics is that the value of a commodity increases with its scarcity.
PCs opened up the American software market to outside companies and turned the hardware into a commodity.
One Atlanta recruiter reported that within hours of posting a commodity manager job, 400 applicants had applied.
Gold, a commodity you can see and touch, became the desired investment by institutional and retail investors alike.
Founded in 2003, MCX is a commodity exchange for the trading of metals and agricultural and industrial commodities.
The browser may, however, not be just another application rendered a commodity by the march of software progress.
So those investors who want to buy gold are really making a commodity bet or a currency bet.
They all blew us away with their new take on a commodity product that we thought we knew.
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Tim Lee of pi Economics, a consultancy, sees a commodity crash as heralding a similar collapse in stockmarkets.
For a commodity outfit today, it turns out there's still much to muck with between farmer and foodmaker.
"There's a generation which is used to a culture in which it's normal that everything has become a commodity, " she says.
But he has got the whip hand now in terms of having a commodity that everybody wants to buy.
Perhaps Lucas means for his audience to see the danger of a technology that makes human life a commodity.
There is now the culture of non-stop breaking news and, some fear, the transformation of news into a commodity.
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