Sentence examples for a normal commodity from inspiring English sources

What is new, and what has set the market alight, is the lack of spare production capacity.In a normal commodity market, no producer in his right mind would keep lots of idle capacity.

Peter Hughes of Ricardo Strategic Consulting points out that if gas becomes a "normal commodity market", prices will approach the long-run marginal cost of supply, which is well below the oil-indexation price.

Factor in the current slow growth of the world economy and the normal price drops to the bottom of that range.That the recent fall in prices has been so precipitous merely confirms that, for the past 25 years, oil has been anything but a normal commodity.

Waste as well as a secondary material are traded as a normal commodity (goods).

Attributes generally do not retain the excludability property that a normal commodity has in theory due to their bundledness, rendering the independent coordination of attributes impractical.

► Fruit bats do not follow the normal commodity chain for bushmeat.

CAPACITY for industrial commodity production and transportation "is well below trend on where it would be in a normal cycle," said Steve Strongin, director for commodities research at Goldman Sachs, so it took "much less added global demand to tighten these markets".

Then earlier this week a report by analyst Hunter Hillcoat asked what would happen to the company if world markets had found a new normal and global commodity prices stayed the same.

"Organized crime wants to get into normal things, a commodity that everyone is using, like paper, food," Nelleman said.

To most current economists, gold is a commodity, subject to the normal fluctuations of supply and demand.

Moving From a Commodity to a Brand.