Sentence examples for long commodity from inspiring English sources

Long bond ETFs have issued $7.2 billion 177% of assets), long commodity ETFs have issued $5.3 billion 166% of assets), and short ETFs have issued $2.6 billion 1088% of assets the year-to-date inflow exceeds the amount of assets at the beginning of this year).

Both China and the rest of the world will find an end to the long commodities boom hard to handle.

In 2008 and 2009, speculators shorted the dollar and went long commodities — physical goods seemed safer than the paper central banks were printing so liberally.

The notional value of over-the-counter commodity derivatives has risen 15-fold, to $9 trillion (see chart 6 .The timing of this increase coincides neatly with the long commodities boom.

And that was the time to go long commodities.

It all will end badly for people who are long commodities.

Some market observers believe contango is becoming more common precisely because so many ETF managers and others are long commodities and must regularly roll over holdings.

Japan's five big trading houses, or shosha, have been spending billions of dollars in recent years to buy providers of natural resources, including copper mines and oil and natural gas producers, propelled by a strong yen and a decade-long commodities boom.

Rousseff, who insists she will not quit, is the latest leftist leader in Latin America to face upheaval as a decade-long commodities boom that fueled breakneck growth and social spending comes to an abrupt end.

Over the very long run commodity prices display a marked upward trend, having risen by 192% since 1950, and by 252% since 1900.

As long as commodity prices vary with financial trends — rising sharply when money is easy and falling fast when credit is squeezed — these markets will attract traders' interest.