Sentence examples for own commodities from inspiring English sources

What's more, this social engineering coincided with the 1970s rise in oil prices, when prices for Tanzania's own commodities were low.

Nor did it help to own commodities, which some investors thought would soar regardless of the health of the United States economy.

Chris and his wife, Jeanine, now have a 14-month-old son, Christopher Marco; they live a block from his mother, and he runs his own commodities brokerage in Hoboken, N.J.

BLOOMBERG NEWS Senate Panel Examines Banks' Involvement in Commodities  |  Several witnesses warned of significant risks to the nation's financial system and to taxpayers if big banks continued to own commodities units that store and ship vast quantities of metals and oil, Edward Wyatt reports in The New York Times.

Several witnesses at Tuesday's hearings warned that letting the country's largest financial institutions own commodities units that store and ship vast quantities of metals, oil and the other basic building blocks of the economy could pose grave risks to the financial system.

The purest way to own commodities without buying them outright is to invest in an exchange-traded fund such as iPath S.& P. GSCI Crude Oil Total Return Index, the Market Vectors Steel E.T.F. and the PowerShares Deutsche Bank Commodity Index Tracking fund.

Fortunately for Woods, his own commodity still has its supply line.

So it is particularly instructive to look this week at our own commodity price index.

But those who own commodity exchange-traded funds that use futures contracts have to be mindful of a special wrinkle.

The Economist's own commodity-price index rose by 54% between its low at the end of 2008 and late April.

Banks that own commodity assets and trade raw materials have drawn increasing criticism in recent weeks, with federal regulators in the United States taking a look at the metals warehousing industry.