Sentence examples for most other commodities from inspiring English sources

In contrast to most other commodities, the price of oil has remained fairly strong.

Prices have plunged because of slowing world economic growth and falling demand from China, the world's biggest consumer of iron ore, copper, nickel and most other commodities.

But even B.H.P. acknowledged that the cartel system had kept diamond demand growing and prices continually rising even as most other commodities, like gold and silver, have been plagued by fluctuating conditions that undercut prices and forced mines to close.

To see why, consider chart 1. Thanks to new technology and productivity gains, you might expect the price of oil, like that of most other commodities, to fall slowly over the years.

Commodities are more volatile than other assets — the price of copper fluctuates a lot more than that of a television set — and oil has historically been more volatile than most other commodities; a 2007 study found that in the U.S. it was more volatile than ninety-five per cent of other products.

While few authors consider that their books are advertised adequately and most publishers are highly doubtful whether press advertising does in fact sell books, the amounts spent in relation to sales revenue are much higher than for most other commodities, seldom less than 5 percent for new books.

While demand for petroleum futures continued to rise, contract kept falling on most other physical commodities, whose prices have been in a more or less constant downward spiral for the past five years.

This means that global per caput production of milk products will continue to increase in the range of 1.4-1.5 1.4-1.5, which is high relative to most other agricultural commodity sectors.

And while gold is the most obvious example of this trend, other commodities are rising, too.

Thailand, a member of ASEAN, buys most of Burma's gas and other commodities.

Unlike other commodities, such as most precious metals, there is a substantial mark-up in the retail sale of gem diamonds.