Sentence examples for european commodities from inspiring English sources

Mr. Burkhart, 70, retired as a vice president of the former Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York; he was in charge of the bank's European commodities lending operations.

FTC Capital, a $300 million European commodities fund, lost 4percentt in one of its larger funds, the sources said.

The sludge was oil waste, brought to Ivory Coast by a little-known but hugely successful European commodity trading company and secretly dumped at night at more than a dozen sites across Abidjan by a dubious local contractor only registered as a company a few weeks before.

But neither option seems politically viable in the near term, so Oberbannsheidt expects European commodity food prices to remain high.

We can expect other U.S. and European commodity producers to follow the lead of Dow Chemical and Ashland, in seeking merger partners.

"Everyone is hedging their Ivorian cocoa in March, which is why March is weak relative to September and December," said a European soft commodities analyst.

That could help relieve inflationary pressures that result from European purchases of commodities like crude oil that are priced globally in dollars.

In another earnings story, Campbell Soup reported a 22% drop in its fourth-quarter profit but blamed the bulk of the loss on charges related to European trademarks and commodity hedges.

This gave rise to a bubble in farmland prices, which burst when the rapid postwar recovery of European agriculture drove commodity prices down again.

The investment grade issues did well, but not on the scale of high yield, returning 9-10% in the US and European markets.In commodities, the right bet to make was on oil, which rose a staggering 56.7%.

As Larson points out, these spiritually powerful objects were turned into a commodity by European curiosity: the price of a head was one gun.