Sentence examples for hard commodity from inspiring English sources

"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".

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.

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.

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.

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

Unfortunately, it takes money and time to develop programs both hard commodities to come by in these times.

The price dynamics of precious metals and the hard commodities will answer the inflation question in due course.

With hard commodities prices on a ferocious upward path, their soft counterparts have not strayed far behind.

Some see investor interest in the commodities market swinging from hard commodities, such as minerals, to soft commodities, such as food.