We expect commodity-based currencies such as the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand dollars and the Brazilian real to resume their appreciation.
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Investors are dumping the currency because the Canadian economy is widely perceived as commodity-based and export-oriented at a time when commodity prices are depressed and export markets are sluggish.
This is the result of increased demand in essential, commodity-based assets that comes at the same time unemployment, stagnant wages and tighter credit cause consumers to put off big-ticket purchases.
The 1980 map of Latin America was largely one of authoritarian, often military governments, generally controlled by small oligarchies, with hyper-cyclical, commodity-based economies, nearly all plagued by huge debt and hyper-inflation.
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Commodity-based stock investments are investments in companies that seek to profit from rising commodity prices including investments in the equity of mining companies, or companies that grow cotton, livestock, or produce fertilizers.
Many SMBs have struggled to adopt big data and private cloud solutions due to lack of in-house skills and expertise to design and maintain commodity hardware-based systems, IBM said in its announcement.
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Commodities were in focus once again, as copper and crude-oil prices fell sharply as investors dumped assets across the commodity complex due to broad-based risk aversion and lingering concerns over growth in China.
"The market saw gold going lower, and everyone panicked, " said Pradeep Unni, head of research at Richcomm Global Services, a Dubai-based commodity broker.
While physically-backed commodity ETFs tend to track better than their futures-based counterparts, there are certain potential risks and issues associated with these as well.
"The same was leveled against WTI, " said Harry Tchilinguirian, the London-based head of commodity strategy at BNP Paribas.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services -- not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
Hadoop is open source, Java-based software running on racks of commodity servers that are wired together using a standard, low cost 1 Gb Ethernet fabric.
Reed Elsevier has fat margins and high prices in a business based on information--a commodity, and one that is cheaper than ever in the internet era.
Intrade is cutting off its US customers after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sued the Ireland-based company for violating US law.
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Twenty-three product groups are now four, based not on commodity silicon but around "solutions, " in networking equipment, automotive, cellular and entertainment.
Product groups, now 4 (down from 23), are based not on commodity silicon but on "solutions" -- in networking equipment, automotive, cellular and entertainment.
The Midland, Michigan-based company still gets 40% of its revenues from basic commodity chemicals and plastics.
Given that he is playing more frequently in Europe and is a better known commodity there, expect several significant endorsement offers to spring from his 1st major victory from European-based corporations.
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Tata Chemicals, which is based at Lake Magadi, is Africa's largest manufacturer of this self-replenishing commodity.
Many MLPs have a degree of insulation from commodity price volatility thanks to long-term deals with customers for leasing out storage facilities and pipeline deals that are based on volume of throughput rather than the price of it.
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