Sentence examples for number of commodity from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

The nation's Commodity Futures Trading Commission agreed in October to limit the number of commodity contracts that any investor could hold in agriculture or energy, and American ethanol subsidies were eliminated in December.

N = 409 is the 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.

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

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.

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

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