Sentence examples for investment commodity from inspiring English sources
As rare wine shifted from just a luxurious indulgence to an investment commodity, the company grew rapidly, until October, when the storm sent water gushing into the cellars.
Africa's elephants are also being shot in extraordinary and rising numbers for their ivory, now a hot-selling status and investment commodity in China.
This finding confirms that health is both a consumption and investment commodity as good health enables individuals to engage in productive activities that translate positively into their consumption and investment activities.
Take its initial creation, which was a stunning piece of site-specific, mechanically-aided, performance art; an attention-grabbing spectacle taking place within an attention-grabbing spectacle, which highlighted through dark satire how art has become an investment commodity to be auctioned off to ultra-wealthy trophy-hunters.
How dependable and unmediated by special interests is the information it gives us? "Beyond technology isn't it people trying to have a better life?" He also sees "The Mechanics of Emotion" as a metaphor of the art world, and how it transforms human values and vagaries into investment commodities.
Though they generally say that their strategies are aimed at diversification and are not riskier, public pension funds are trying a wide range of investments: commodity futures, junk bonds, foreign stocks, deeply discounted mortgage-backed securities and margin investing.
Oxfam's report said that the factors contributing to the 2008 food crisis, including biofuels investments, commodity speculation and stagnant productivity in sub-Saharan Africa, still exist and that another food crisis may happen.
"I got into investments, commodities futures," he said.
Credit Suisse had its first unprofitable year in 1886, due to losses in agriculture, venture investments, commodities and international trade.
Between 2003 and 2008, investment in commodity index funds rose from $13bn to $317bn.
In their simplest form, derivatives can provide financial protection on the value of an investment or commodity.
