Sentence examples for specific commodities from inspiring English sources

The notes are part of a wave of new financial products that allow go-it-alone investors to bet on specific commodities.

The specific commodities I worked on – sugar, wheat, corn and soya – were critical to the lives of poor people all over the world.

In addition to income tax, the principal federal taxes include wealth tax, value-added tax, and excise taxes on specific commodities and luxury goods.

In addition, the Commodity Credit Corporation, with a crop loan and storage program, was established to make price-supporting loans and purchases of specific commodities.

These are often geographic (for example, forced labour is common in Thailand); they can be linked to specific commodities (see Verité's forced labour commodity atlas); and they result from the presence of labour migrants.

Dow Jones Indexes publishes thousands of indexes, including broad samplings of national and continental stock markets, and gauges of smaller national stock markets, specific industries' stocks, hedge funds, bonds and even specific commodities in specific parts of the world.

Historically, fairs displayed many different kinds of products in specific commodity or industrial groupings.

One steady source of money has been the growing number of new funds that mirror specific commodity indexes, like the Standard & Poor's Goldman Sachs Commodity Index.

"The opportunities of Brexit for developing countries rely on specific commodity price changes … changes in distribution of aid, cheaper imports from the UK, and the ability to gain from new trade deals," said the study's authors.

Kevin Norrish, director of commodities research at Barclays Capital, says there has been a surge of issuance in structured products, investment vehicles that deliver a return tied to specific commodity prices.

A number of commercial corporations under the bureau were responsible for the wholesaling, distribution, and warehousing of specific commodity groups; those operations also have been reorganized into independent business groups.