Sentence examples for commodities hope from inspiring English sources

But thanks to Duddridge, a forty-something Welshman, armed with the life story of Keanu Reeves, they now boast that most precious of commodities: hope.

Perhaps one reason that urbanization cannot be as investment intensive as some local governments and commodities producers hope is that local debt in China has ballooned.

Last week, the New York Mercantile Exchange, introduced "mini" futures contracts on the commodities in hopes of attracting more individual investors.

Those purchases appear to have set off a national wave of front-running as other enterprises, rich with easy bank loans, bought commodities with hopes of selling them at a higher price.

A bull is an investor who expects prices to rise and, on this assumption, purchases a security or commodity in hopes of reselling it later for a profit.

It also gives nature-lovers the most precious commodity of all: hope.

"Gold is a fear factor commodity, and so hope of a resolution is causing prices to go down a little bit," said Bryant Evans, portfolio manager at Cozad Asset Management.

According to Andy Rothman of CLSA, a broker, some traders are taking possession of agricultural commodities in the hopes that prices will rise.

Data is probably the most precious resource we have in Europe – the only commodity we can hope to mine endlessly is our brain.

A bear is an investor who expects prices to decline and, on this assumption, sells a borrowed security or commodity in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price, a speculative transaction called selling short.

This is partly explained by expectations of a cooling global economy and of a slowdown in China in particular although the country's fourth-quarter figures, which were stronger than expected, gave commodity bulls renewed hope.