Sentence examples for contracted for delivery from inspiring English sources

Fearing that electricity producers would try to cut their losses by reducing output, on December 10th the government ordered that coal contracted for delivery to energy companies in 2011 must not be sold at a higher price than last year.

Aside from reducing hours, the Postal Service said it would also explore merging offices that are close to one another or contracting for delivery directly to homes and businesses.

Contracts for delivery in later months also settled lower.

The contract for delivery in December closed at $3.44¾ a bushel, up 11¼ cents.

Coffee settled 4.70 cents to 6 cents lower, with the contract for delivery in March at 238.14 cents a pound.

Cocoa settled $65 to $76 lower, with the contract for delivery in July at $1,235 a ton.

Gold rose, however, with the contract for delivery in August up $7.70, at $1,217.70 an ounce.

The price of the gold contract for delivery in April gained $23.10, to $313 a troy ounce.

Crude settled at $35.23 a barrel, up 69 cents for the day, on contracts for delivery in December.

Oil futures contracts for delivery beyond this summer passed $80 a barrel for the first time on Thursday.

Silver futures settled 7.6 cents to 7.9 cents higher, with the contract for delivery in December at $4.256 an ounce.