Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.
But as the year goes on, he thinks more economically sensitive sectors, such as materials (metals, chemicals, paper companies) and technology stocks, will strengthen.
After all, they are making billions of dollars in selling raw materials and precious metals to the West.
The WorldCommodity Fund, which holds about 70% in basic materials like precious metals and 30% in energy stocks, has returned 13.3% this year to date.
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The cabin felt like a design cocoon of fine materials, leather, metals and woods.
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This includes scientific experiments as well as the potential collection of materials such as precious metals.
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The rise in basic materials such as precious metals was caused by a weakening of the dollar against other currencies, HSBC analyst Howard Wen said.
Fortunately for experimentalists, some materials act rather like metals but are easier to push to the quantum limit because they give electrons less freedom to begin with.
Many aircraft parts are made from highly specialised metals and other materials: will there be enough of these to go around?
These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing raw materials, including paper or wood products, chemicals, construction materials, and mining and metals.
Like the 1970s, Tillman sees this decade as one in which financial assets become less valuable than hard assets such as real estate, metals, raw materials and even collectibles.
While the current line of Phosphor Reveal watches are adorned with crystals, M3D technology allows for any number of materials, such as precious metals, woods or ceramics, to be affixed to the rotating segments, creating an the possibility for an endless number of unique watch faces.
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Among the important materials, the category of other metals, mainly aluminum, registered more than 4 million units (up 8.1 percent).
"To have 100 billion cars on the planet that aren't being used is a total waste of materials, gas, petrol, metals, " Frigstad explained.
Basic materials, commodities, and precious metals, according to Hummel.
The data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that demand for refined metals, steel and other materials used for building remains subdued.
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One problem facing the company, whose other brands include Sprite, Fanta, Dasani and Minute Maid, is another rise in the cost of raw materials, including sweeteners, juices, metals and plastic.
So just to mine, we have to develop (a) technologies to mine orders of magnitude more quickly than currently exists (b) with autonomous robots that (c) are capable of self-replication from scratch, that is, by smelting metals and fabricating the other materials necessary from the raw materials of Mercury.
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Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
Mr. Wasendorf led Peregrine into a number of precious-metals ventures, according to company marketing materials.
Some materials in solar modules such as silicon and rare metals could be more valuable in the future, providing an additional incentive to recycle.
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Weighing on the downside Tuesday were materials and energy stocks, as prices for crude oil and metals slipped.
Not only has China imported increasing quantities of coal and metals from Australia, but its appetite for raw materials has sharply pushed up global commodity prices.
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Luka Erceg, the boss of Simbol Materials, a start-up that produces lithium and other metals from brines and effluent, reckons he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal and other fees applying for funds from the federal stimulus package.
Wander into any eighth-grade science fair and you're likely to see an example of this destructive process at work - place two dissimilar metals in an electrolyte solution and one of the materials will slowly steal ions from the other, causing it to oxidize, become brittle and eventually break apart.
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Taking into account labor, materials, transportation, and energy costs, the chemicals, primary metals, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries stand to benefit most from maintaining or expanding facilities in the U.S. Companies in wood, plastic, and rubber products could also benefit significantly, but their lower net imports might limit their benefits from on-shoring.
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In the materials group, Reliance Steel, one of the largest U.S. metals service centers, distributes a line of more than 100, 000 metal products, including carbon, alloy, stainless and specialty steel, aluminum, brass as well as copper products.
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He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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Many of the most valuable metals are mined outside U.S. borders and are used in everyday electronic materials.
"It is only the surface that has been scraped for metals around the world, " said Magnus Ericsson, a senior partner at Raw Materials Group, a Solna, Sweden-based consultancy.
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