Sentence examples for baskets of commodities from inspiring English sources

The money that retail investors have in alternative investments in the United States, ranging from baskets of commodities to mutual funds that employ sophisticated trading, more than doubled from 2008 to 2012, to $712 billion from $312 billion, according to McKinsey & Company.

This is because a single commodity is sold for a different price to different buyers, and because sectors do not sell a single commodity but rather baskets of commodities and the composition of the baskets differs per buyer.

First, sectors are aggregates of establishments that produce different commodities, which implies that sectors sell baskets of commodities and the basket sold to sector j differs from the one sold to sector k.

Klingman: There's baskets of commodities, and whether it's through an exchange-traded fund or other ways to do it, where you're going to own not only gold but oil and copper and aluminum and silver and even agricultural commodities.

On this set of baskets, an indifference curve is defined for each consumer; a consumer's indifference curve contains all the baskets of commodities that the consumer regards as equivalent: That is, for every pair of baskets on the same indifference curve, the consumer does not prefer one basket over another.

2. Baskets of commodity exports and imports determined how much of that gain was retained during the plateau period (red squares) and afterwards (blue diamonds).

While gold does provide some protection against spikes in inflation, a broader basket of commodities provides more substantial protection.

Triffin's suggested solution was to create an artificial reserve asset, tied to a basket of commodities.

Rather than latching onto the metals upsurge or even more fickle agricultural products, investors can find funds that offer a diverse basket of commodities.

Success depends, in part, on owning a basket of commodities so that local factors that affect price, like the weather, do not become too dominant.

If a selected basket of commodities became more expensive over the coming decade  — which would signal scarcity caused by a crowded planet — Mr. Ehrlich, an ecologist, would win the bet.