Thus, we have Senator Joe Lieberman (I--Conn.) plotting legislation to limit the ability of hedge funds to buy commodities.
They are urging you to day trade, buy commodities including gold coins, or, even worse, traffic in currencies, options or derivatives.
The factories reopened after three-way talks between government ministers, manufacturers and workers' unions, and the government promised to give ration cards to workers to buy commodities at subsidized rates.
The answer depends on how US economic data, Debt Ceiling Negotiations on the national debt limit, and central bank actions will play out with popular trade strategies like shorting the dollar, buy commodities, and exporters.
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Crude oil's recent slide is a result of ample supplies and recent speculation that the Federal Reserve may soon allow interest rates to rise, which would reduce the supply of easy cash investors have been using to buy commodities like oil.
Such options give Universa the right, but not the obligation, to sell or buy stocks or commodities.
He recommends that long-term investors who want to own commodities buy an index like the iShare GSG Commodity Index , which includes holdings in metals, agriculture and energy.
One can, with money alone, buy not only basic commodities but also private housing, private schooling, and private health care.
All the US needs to do is print more greenbacks: Buy dollar-denominated commodities and goods with dollars and debt, and service the dollar-denominated debt with dollars and more debt.
The second, the indirect method, is to buy companies that deal in commodities.
Some say they are slashing trading commissions and loan fees and trimming collateral requirements for margin loans made to buy more stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.
Others provide entry into commodities markets or let you buy a group of commodity producers.
Instead he would let private investors make those funding choices, recognizing that successful companies produce commodities that consumers want to buy at fair market value.
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"You've essentially got two split markets, " where farmers sell to the government but consumers buy from overseas, said Thomas Pugh, a commodities economist at Capital Economics, a London-based research firm.
Since China is the biggest buyer of commodities globally any ratcheting down in their ability to buy raw materials could translate to lower prices of those goods.
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Since most everyone interested in commodities was already invested there was no one willing to buy what they wanted to sell except at much lower prices.
Finally, it helps that books are quasi commodities -- there's no need to try them on before you buy -- and that they're small-ticket, impulse items that are easy to ship.
Traders often buy gold as a hedge against dollar weakness, and vice-versa, plus a stronger greenback makes all commodities more expensive in other currencies, thereby hurting demand.
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It took the government to step in last year and get things moving by giving potential home-buyers cash to make down-payments on homes, cash for clunkers to buy new automobiles, cash to financial firms that was used for trading to bid up the price of stocks and commodities.
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