Mexico, although less commodity-driven than South America, is unlikely to do much better.
Bundling up its underperforming businesses is also a way to deal with the hangover from the mining "supercycle" as China enters a less commodity-intensive phase of growth.
The first is that the paper industry is in many ways a commodity business, and in a commodity business any more than one serious competitor is enough to produce a price war.The second reason, paradoxically, is that the industry can sometimes be less commodity-like than it seems.
And Huntsman has veered away from polystyrene, that common plastic of egg cartons and hamburger clamshells, into molecules that are a little less commodity-like.
China also is active in less commodity-rich nations like Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, in part because they are growing economies and geopolitically strategic.
This is one part of a broad macro-economic trend toward primary fuel costs moving in to the "twilight" of our ever-changing, ever-larger, ever-less-commodity-dependent economy.
Jarryd Hayne, Brett Morris and Blake Ferguson are a far less certain commodity.
Privacy has become a less valuable commodity; after all, oversharing will get you many more followers.
But for most, solar panels are more or less a commodity, which favours big producers with access to cheap capital.
No one thought Richard Nixon — a far less personable commodity than Palin — would come back either after his sour-grapes "last press conference" of 1962.
