Sentence examples for recent commodities from inspiring English sources

The recent commodities boom, by contrast, made people fabulously wealthy in a matter of months.

Not only does Argentina have high debts, but it also saved less of its profits during the recent commodities boom.

He avoided oil stocks during the recent commodities boom and clung to old-fashioned media companies when competitors dumped them.

Amid recent commodities boom that has fueled a surged in consolidation within the industry, Alcoa announced Thursday that it has hired a longtime outside adviser to head up its mergers and acquisitions efforts.

These policies exacerbate the economic cycle, and contribute to the paradox of the resource curse.During the recent commodities' boom, resource-rich countries have sought to escape the curse by pouring natural-resource income into sovereign-wealth funds (SWFs).

Alcoa's Adviser Amid the recent commodities boom that has fueled a surge in consolidation in the industry, Alcoa announced Thursday that it has hired a longtime outside adviser to head up its mergers and acquisitions efforts.

Canada has ridden the recent commodity price boom and, to many observers, its real estate looks pricey.

"The scale of recent commodity price falls means that CPI inflation is likely to remain below 1% until the end of the year," the inflation report (pdf) said.

And the Prebisch-Singer thesis turned out to be flawed as the recent commodity boom demonstrated.Mr Dosman's writing is workmanlike rather than sparkling.

The majority of the "bottom billion" of the world's population live in Africa, which, until buoyed by the recent commodity boom, had seen an absolute decline in most of its indicators of human development.

Because central banks have earned a reputation as inflation fighters and people expect long-term inflation to remain low, price shocks—even on the scale of the recent commodity-price surge need not translate into persistently higher inflation.