The company recreated itself from a low-margin, commodity-driven, regional oil refiner into a less-cyclical, higher-margin, global specialty chemicals company.

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Another strategy is to add value to what would otherwise be a purely price-driven commodity purchase.

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It's a demand-driven commodity, where the reserve margin on the supply side has shrunk to under 2 million barrels per day.

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Another strategy is to add value to an otherwise price-driven commodity purchase.

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As it remains a resources-driven economy, the drop in most commodity prices this year (from dimmed global prospects) will be felt acutely.

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It's a hot commodity even to my old-fashioned granny who has never driven a car nor touched a computer in her life.

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Mr Albanese was not the only boss of a big mining firm to misread the robustness of China's rampant growth, which had driven a six-year boom in commodity prices and made mining unimaginably profitable.

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The rising prices of gold and oil are part of a broader five-year run up in commodity values, which has been driven as much by optimism as fear.

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The surge in commodity prices underpins the Canadian unit and has driven the unit to a four-year high against the greenback.

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Food and energy, driven by (notoriously volatile) commodity prices, can experience short-lived supply disruptions tied to weather, geopolitics, technology failures, etc.

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