Sentence examples for sent commodities from inspiring English sources

Demand from China has sent commodities prices surging over the last year.

Expectations that China would take steps to slow its economic expansion sent commodities and materials stocks lower Thursday.

The dollar's rise, and the mounting fear of a slowdown in global growth, sent commodities prices lower.

The stock market is dancing on top of a $2 trillion monetary base and that latent liquidity has sent commodities higher while the dollar sinks.

The economic crisis sent commodity prices into a tailspin.

A weak world economy sent commodity markets plunging, with oil falling almost to $10 a barrel.

Bernanke's comments supported the dollar, which in turn sent commodity prices tumbling.

FOR a brief period it looked like "Food Crisis 2.0", or another "great grain robbery"—the episode in 1973 when a Russian harvest failure sent commodity prices soaring.

But the worries about the country's growth has sent commodity companies lower, with BHP Billiton down 29.5p to £14.34, Anglo American 16p lower £10.06 and Antofagasta falling 9.5p to 731p.

Investors were buoyed on Friday by the Chinese central bank's surprise interest rate - which sent commodity companies soaring - and hints from the European Central Bank that it was prepared to take action to boost the flagging eurozone economy and counter deflation fears.

In the late 1990s, for instance, Greenspan inadvertently tightened monetary policy, sending commodities into a tailspin.