Alex Beard, aged 43 (director oil commodity department), joined Glencore in May 1995 working in the oil commodity department as a marketer, responsible primarily for the CIS region and gaining expertise in high sulphur crudes.
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That would be up nearly 50% from last year and the biggest jump of any major farm commodity, according to Agriculture Department forecasts.
The bank agreed to pay the fines to the Financial Services Authority, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice, entering into a deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S. related to one count of wire fraud.
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Evidence of its dilemma can be found in initial White House reluctance even to acknowledge publicly the full magnitude of Moscow's latest bid to tap U.S. taxpayer largesse via credits supported by the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
The U.S. Department of Energy considers succinic acid to be a valuable commodity since it can be refined with less energy than petroleum.
Sexier, but in no less a commodity category, Sephora took on both the over-the-counter department store cosmetic brands and the under-wraps drug store brands and created an open-sell environment as its distinguishing brand factor.
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The bank has said it has received requests for information related to government inquiries and investigations by Congress, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. Financial Services Authority, the state of Massachusetts and others.
Retail numbers from the Commerce Department Wednesday show that consumers have found more spending momentum to meet rising commodity and materials costs that are already being passed directly to consumers, with food prices, apparel, and most noticeably gasoline prices all rising in the first quarter of 2011.
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Through it all, Brian Cashman has proven to be an invaluable commodity thanks in part to his tenacity and relentless pursuit of ultimate control within the baseball operations department.
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The Justice Department started investigating potential rate manipulation about three years ago, in conjunction with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
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