Chinese demand for all things commodity based is one of the main reasons for price inflation in a number of these products.
The market expects commodity based currencies like the Brazilian real to weaken at first because of the downgrade news in the U.S., but strengthen over time.
Technology markets historically go through a natural cycle of evolving from artificially high prices during the early adoption phase to a commodity based price during its mainstream buyer phase.
They will have the same risk profile as the raw materials but this time the rewards from being engaged with commodity based stocks will be far closer to the returns delivered by the commodities themselves.
There is some talk of a QE3, and if that happens, commodities will rise, commodity based currencies like the Brazilian real will strengthen, the dollar will weaken, and inflation will return to the big emerging markets.
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.
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.
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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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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"The market saw gold going lower, and everyone panicked, " said Pradeep Unni, head of research at Richcomm Global Services, a Dubai-based commodity broker.
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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"The same was leveled against WTI, " said Harry Tchilinguirian, the London-based head of commodity strategy at BNP Paribas.
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.
It is a gauge designed in collaboration with Pring Research to reflect its proprietary investment strategy, which tactically allocates among stock, bond, commodity, and cash segments based on the phase of the economic business cycle.
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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.
Commodities, based on the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, spiked 6.8% in the second quarter.
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.
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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Commodity servers in the market today are almost entirely based on x86 chips supplied by Intel and AMD.
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It is the gaming experience that is the commodity here and certain games will survive and thrive based on their attractiveness and value to end consumers.
Commodity traders frequently review charts looking for the best opportunity based on seasonal trends, often based on the weather.
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.
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Plus, earnings growth is expected to be strong in 2012 and 2013, based on the solid fixed margin businesses and limited commodity price exposure.
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Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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