Sentence examples for commodities raising from inspiring English sources

Since investment funds have placed a lot of money in commodities, raising the margin requirements to trade oil, which Congress is currently considering, would discourage speculation.

Chinese demand has sharply pushed up the prices for many commodities, raising worries that these prices may fall again if Chinese officials are successful in slowing growth.

And it contributes to the demand for corn, helping to drive up the cost of that commodity, raising food prices and diverting farmland that could be used for growing crops for human consumption.

That helped make residential real estate British Columbia's most sought-after commodity, raising housing values nearly 75percentt over the last six years.

Its assertion that "a work of art is a gift not a commodity" raises some profound, and important questions about the nature of the literary transaction.

Expectations that the Federal Reserve will agree to cut interest rates when it meets today also supported oil and other commodities markets, raising the likelihood that the economy will weather a credit crisis.

Transactions costs can lower profits from commodities while raising the cost of purchased food, creating a "price band" that can make self-provisioning an economically rational choice (de Janvry et al. 1991; Key et al. 2000; Cadot et al. 2010).

The emerging utilization of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Fog computing centers as an Internet virtual computing commodity is raising concerns over the energy consumptions of networked data centers for the support of delay-sensitive applications.

Investors had long expected a deal between Glencore and Xstrata since the commodities trader raised $10 billion in its I.P.O. in 2011.

After Qatar Holding, which owns a 12 percent stake in Xstrata, balked at Glencore's original 2.8-share proposal, the commodities trader raised its offer to 3.05 of its own shares for each Xstrata share.

"There is the potential for huge profits to be made for those who intentionally and unnecessarily displace children from their families, so they can be used as lucrative poverty commodities to raise funds from well-intentioned but ill-informed tourists," he said.