How is a producer of commodity shoes outperforming a well-run luxury brand like Bulgari?
Dow Chemical : September contract put activity on the global producer of commodity chemicals this morning appears to be the work of a bearish options player increasing the size of a plain-vanilla debit put spread.
For more than a decade Huntsman Corp., then the largest privately held producer of commodity chemicals in North America, would entertain a few hundred clients at an annual barbecue in the back yard of founder Jon Huntsman's suburban Salt Lake City home.
Producers of commodities enter into futures contracts to hedge their risk, but need a party to take the other side.
LONDON - Tucked away in a small village about 30 minutes from Zurich, Glencore International has grown from a small, secretive trading firm into one of the biggest buyers, sellers and producers of commodities in the last three decades.
The rationale of Fairtrade is that producers of commodities subject to price volatility should be protected through payment of a minimum price to cover living and production costs, a price which adjusts whenever the market shifts above the minimum threshold.
It's one in which international organisations certify producers of commodities like coffee and cocoa as Fair Trade: in exchange for meeting certain requirements dictated by the certifiers, such farmers receive a premium for their wares.It seems like a lovely idea.
Thomas Cooley, dean of NYU's Stern School of Business, writes today the global economic recovery is highly tilted towards producers of commodities rather than financial products.
In his essay on reification, Lukács frames his basic argument as an extension of Marx's analysis of the "fetishism of the commodity form" in Capital I, whereby Marx refers to the phenomenon of social relations between producers of commodities that appear in capitalism under the guise of objective, calculable, properties of things ("value").
Major producers of commodities like Wilmar, Golden Agri Resources, Asia Pulp and Paper and Cargill have made similar or equivalent commitments.
