"commodity sales" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the sale of a specific type of items such as food, clothing, or fuel. For example: "The company reported a decline in commodity sales this quarter."
Mrs. Rona, 36, works in New York as a director of commodity sales with BNP Paribas, the French bank.
The country is the world's biggest oil producer, and though the economy has slowed this year, trickle-down wealth from commodity sales still makes Russian banking stocks alluring.
Profit from commodity sales and services, which included gas and electricity, rose more than fivefold from the period a year earlier, to $442 million.
Both trends, however, have recently reversed, suggesting that the rise in commodity sales will not be sustained, and that exports might shrink, weakening the economy another notch.
Mining shares were in demand after positive noises from China, a key economy for commodity sales, and hopes that America's stimulus measures would continue for the foreseeable future.
And governments should use profits from commodity sales to provide social services, which would undercut popular support for rebellions, the study suggests.
"Any prepaid commodity sale contract provides financing," the bank says.
Revenue at its fixed income and commodities sales and trading unit was $2.6 billion, up 34 percent from a year ago.
A decrease usually means that shipping prices and commodities sales are dropping (the latter because shippers are competing over fewer consignments).
A critical component of that effort, Mr. Dimon said, is refocusing the bank on core areas and exiting units like student-loan origination and most of the physical commodities sales and trading business.
Workers on commodities sales desks could get as much as 20% bigger bonuses, says the Options Group, a Wall Street recruiter.
