Sentence examples for held commodities from inspiring English sources

Mr. Israel was president of Leon Israel & Bros., a family owned green coffee import and export company and later was Chairman of the Board of ACLI International, a privately held commodities company.

Xstrata, which is based in Zug, Switzerland, will pay $2.5 billion for the mines owned by Glencore, a closely held commodities trading company started by the fugitive billionaire trader Marc Rich, who sold out in 1993.

Index funds, for instance, do not hold commodities themselves but passively invest their clients' money in energy derivatives to hedge against inflation.

Some made money by shorting stocks; others were holding commodities and other kinds of assets that were unaffected by the crash.

The corresponding higher interest rates increase the cost of holding commodities.

By contrast, in the northern state of Pernambuco MST members shot and killed four men earlier this year.Lost highwaysA second problem holding commodity producers back is Brazil's patchy infrastructure.

He held that commodities contain within them "bundles of utilities"; i.e., they represent varying qualitative degrees of utility.

There are continuing uncertainties surrounding the 34% stake in Xstrata held by commodities trader Glencore, while Xstrata is also sitting on a huge loss on its 24.9% stake in Lonmin, mostly bought at £18.

During the Suez Canal crisis, the Vietnam War and again during the 1970s oil embargo, courts held that commodities brokers could not bail out of futures contracts.

Federal regulators said on Thursday that they would impose hard limits on energy futures contracts held by commodity traders, part of a move to curb excessive speculation and possibly avoid a repeat of the 2008 run-up in oil prices.

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