Sentence examples for commodity operations from inspiring English sources

The story always ended at the grain bin and the big commodity operations," said Fred Fleming, 59, who operates Lazy YJ Farms in Reardan, Wash., which is part of FindtheFarmer.

And it will divest some commodity operations to raise cash.

The announcement, which surprised many, comes after a week of increased scrutiny of Wall Street's commodity operations.

A Chinese giant, ICBC, is reportedly in talks to buy the London commodity operations of Standard Bank, a South African lender.

The Japanese have proven themselves masters of "commodity" businesses; but moviemaking, television production, and book publishing--the "software" businesses that Sony coveted--are about as far from commodity operations as can be.

Before October, the last time the government bought milk powder was in June 2006, and it was eventually used in government nutrition programs, given away as animal feed or sold on the open market, said Steve Gill, director of commodity operations for the department.

Until 1999, regulations barred banks from owning nonfinancial companies like commodities operations.

Its fixed income, currency and commodities operations suffered a 34% fall in revenue.

Still, it is unclear if big banks would be required to divest themselves of their commodities operations immediately.

Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and UBS either shuttered or shrank their commodities operations last year this yearr Barclays, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase have scaled back.

The bank's large fixed-income and commodities operations fell 14 percent from the second quarter, while equities fell 15 percent, excluding the accounting gains taken on its debt.