Sentence examples for number of commodities from inspiring English sources

The number of commodities in which futures trading takes place are far fewer outside the United States.

"Enron, for example, was involved in a significant number of commodities that were not necessarily very liquid -- coal, metals," he said.

Other Transactions The Act also creates a broad exclusion for a number of commodities that are of interest to Enron, including "credit risk measure" commodities and weather derivatives.

With those scarcities came price increases, and chronic shortages were reported in a number of commodities, including detergents, soaps, and paper products.

The number of commodities included in the U.S. index has expanded from 250 when the index was started in 1902 to about 2,400 in the late 20th century.

Over the years the scope of its trading expanded to include a number of commodities, and in 1973 it spun off an independent Chicago Board Options Exchange to regularize trading of corporate stock options.

The agroindustrial system these companies underpin is primarily focused on a small number of commodity crops for export.

Antitrust authorities had raised concerns that the takeover would reduce competition in a number of commodity sectors.

A recent report by McKinsey, a consultancy, found that the number of commodity-trading houses in Geneva alone had risen from 200 in 2006 to 400 in 2011.

In the intervening years, EPFR Global of Cambridge, Mass., a tracker of mutual fund flows, counts a fivefold increase, to about 200, in the number of commodity funds and commodity E.T.F.'s.

Although fuel prices did rise, with ultra low sulphur petrol gaining an average 0.6p per litre, the ONS said the effect was offset by weak sales in a number of commodity groups.