Prices have soared for a variety of other commodities, such as copper, soybeans and cattle.
When they are very, very small, materials, such as copper, that are soft can become hard.
Now these countries account for a third of world consumption in commodities such as copper.
Other commodities such as copper, wheat and cotton have also taken sizable haircuts over the past two weeks.
Meanwhile, the profits of publicly traded companies in base metals such as copper, aluminum iron and nickel are up 6%, on average.
Junk-bond prices fell and commodities such as copper and oil also dropped.
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Dioxin, though, is usually formed as a byproduct in processes such as copper smelting, paper-production and the making of pesticides and chlorine-containing organic chemicals.
Mr Sinha has imposed a flat 8% import-duty surcharge (with some exemptions), and has increased duties still further on several items, such as copper.
This should all be bullish for commodities, such as copper, oil and gold, and also trickle down to boost share prices of natural resources equities.
You have more dollars chasing a finite resource such as copper.
Much of the U.S. economic data over the last month has been softer than expected, raising concerns about future consumption of industrial commodities such as copper.
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As China has become more industrialized, it has become Australia's biggest trading partner and buyer of its commodities, including raw materials such as copper and iron ore.
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As our commodities team has highlighted, the intensity of use for some industrial metals such as copper and steel will decline markedly over the next few years.
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China is the world's largest consumer of base metals such as copper, and any signs that growth in the region is faltering tend to be taken negatively by investors.
Steady middle-class growth also could help China's trading partners, bolstering a market for computers, cars and trendy clothing, as well as for commodities such as copper, oil and cotton.
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The scientists turned lithium-ion battery materials, such as copper, into a sprayable liquid form, which can be applied to any surface and turn it into an energy storage device.
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By calculating the catalytic properties of materials on a computer, the group is learning what it is that makes other materials, such as copper zeolites, more effective under these conditions.
My take: While this is likely an investor concern, it would presumably have more of an impact on industrial metals, such as copper, as opposed to precious metals, such as gold.
Examples of these resources include oil, natural gas, precious metals (particularly gold and silver), base metals such as copper and nickel, and other resources such as diamonds, coal, lumber and even water.
Some now argue that it's a cause of financial instability as the international super-rich shift their wealth around the world, increasing volatility in the price of gold, equities, government debt or basic commodities such as copper and grain.
More aggressive readers should look for opportunities with unusually strong profit potential such as the copper stocks recommended by Tom Slee in the August issue.
Freeport competes with other miners such as the Southern Copper, Codelco and Newmont Mining.
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The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
Cover is essentially sedimentary rocks that sit atop any perspective deposits, concealing potential metals such as gold and copper in Australia.
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People also need to trade with friends to get resources such as oil, copper, iron and uranium, in order to build their empires.
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In the initial break in 2008 after the failure of Lehman Brothers, stock markets and industrial commodities such as crude oil and copper fell quickly.
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Moreover, key proxies for global growth such as the price of copper and oil have established firm price support and have not yet broken through them.
Platinum and palladium, as well as other industrial metals such copper and aluminium, are well down from their highs earlier in the year as markets factored in softer global economic conditions, in turn weighing on future demand expectations.
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Some already point to signs of some improvement, such as rising premiums for physical copper in key consuming regions.
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The NRW said that where it had colonised, it was out-competing the native plant species such as grey willow and rare copper moss.
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