Sentence examples for hard commodities from inspiring English sources

Jacks has found tight correlations among nearly all "hard" commodities — "those that are extracted from the ground, rather than grown on it".

Equally, there is no discussion of how the large excess capacity of Chinese industry fuels purchases of hard commodities beyond what the country really needs.

Moyo's book is published just as the global "super cycle" in hard commodities appears to be tapering off, in part because of the decline in China's growth rate.

The Japanese yen strengthened to 89.7 against the dollar, and the prices of gold and oil continued to gain ground as investors piled into hard commodities.

"Demand for the hard commodities, such as iron ore and coal, is likely to remain soft for a while, given a large amount of port inventories," Liu Li-gang, chief economist for China at Australia and New Zealand Banking, said in a note.

It takes a lot of steel, copper, aluminum and other hard commodities.

"It looks more an attempt to raise funds out of desperation than an actual attempt to re-introduce a digital currency backed by a hard commodity".

With soybeans being one of the hardest commodities the announcements helped increase their price by about 2.5%.

"Every President would say the hardest commodity to come by in the Oval Office is the truth and nothing but the truth, no matter how much it hurts," Bruce Reed, who was Biden's chief of staff from 2011 to 2013, said.

With hard asset commodities (silver, et al), declining and the previous two nights' auctions (in which there were few works of note), performing without sparkle, I am beginning to reflect on May of 2008.

Mr. Scott said he had interviewed suburban housewives, hard-driving commodities traders and "weekend warriors," who shoot up and get a thrill from hanging out at the Brickyard.