Sentence examples for old commodity from inspiring English sources

But a carbon market isn't innovation; it's just a regular old commodity market, where carbon allowances are the commodity.

Within a 10-minute radius, I discovered the 15th-century Gothic Lonja (the old commodity * * exchange), with its elegant, twisted columns and tranquil courtyard.

Much of this is taking place on the bad old "commodity Internet," as professionals call the system in widespread use today.

Mr Kuhn bewails the fact that companies increasingly buy their executive education through purchasing organisations, which treat it like any old commodity and demand complicated contracts with lots of targets and conditions.

In the case of coffee, as an old commodity, knowledge regarding coffee production has been evolving across generations.

In the study area, coffee is considered an old commodity, as most farmers reported that the farmland was inherited from the previous generation.

But that was the greening of Tom Daley, the instant 14-year-old commodity.

It was 1994 and the party's candidate was a raven-haired, fresh-faced 40-year-old commodity broker, with a big mouth and even bigger ideas.

One worry is that the age-old commodity cycle prices rise; firms invest in costly new capacity; supply increases; profits collapse is more powerful than the burgeoning demand for raw materials in places such as China.

"Farmland can be a bubble just like Florida real estate," said Jeffrey Hainline, president of Advance Trading, a 28-year-old commodity brokerage firm and consulting service in Bloomington, Ill.

Sprott Asset Management's initial public offering this week will make a billionaire of the hedge fund company's founder, spurring speculation Canada's decade-old commodities boom is ending, Bloomberg News reported.