Sentence examples for commodity giving from inspiring English sources

In rural Texas, small-town names are a kind of municipal commodity, giving spots on the map their own quirky and marketable identities.

Rather than take 100% of any business, Noble aims for owning about a third of its supply sources for a commodity, giving it knowledge of the market for trading on top of that.

Mr. Sesno said some may view the reporting from the trips as a commodity, given that the president's words echo so widely in the media.

He can also be relied upon to stay out of trouble – an increasingly valuable commodity given the indiscretions of various other high-profile sportspeople in recent years.

Mr. Mercado, they say, helped make tropical music a valuable commodity, gave chances to new artists and allowed the kind of creative freedom difficult to find in major labels.

Natural gas, he says, looks like an especially compelling commodity, given rising demand from homes and power plants alike.

Peabody Energy is one of the world's largest miners of coal, an ancient commodity given new luster by the shortage of petroleum and by advances in smokestack scrubbers.

We think the Fed would like to see a slowdown internationally (and many international central banks have been raising their interest rates), as it would reduce inflationary pressures on commodities giving it more room to ease U.S. rates.

The second approach, the method of the least squares, appears when Jevons tries to adjudge weights to commodities (giving more weight to commodities that are less vulnerable to price fluctuations), and when he tries to fit empirical laws starting from an a priori reasoning about the form of the equation.

The difference exists because the Goldman index, which consists of 26 commodities, gives more weight to energy.

P. Brett Hammond, chief investment strategist at TIAA-CREF, explained that cheaper commodities gave Wall Street one less thing to worry about — but only one.