But investors should also be aware that shares of these companies tend to mimic the movements of commodity markets, which can be capricious, said Boniface A. Zaino, the manager of the Royce Opportunity fund.
The Industrial Products business facilitates the movement of numerous commodities throughout North America.
In the last century business cycles followed the movement of agricultural commodities: A bumper wheat crop meant more railcars, thus increased demand for steel.
Shields (1997) introduced the flow metaphor for the movement of people, commodities, capital, and information across geographic space, and related them to vector or direction and movability or diffusion of fluids.
Road and rail transport accounts for an overwhelmingly large share of the movement of people and commodities within Sri Lanka.
They can also be used for the movement of palletised or unitised commodities such as lumber, bagged minerals (cement).
The Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, provides, in relevant part: :(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by... extortion or attempts or conspires so to do... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Since the 1990s anthropologists have been writing about and investigating the modern notion of globalization as a world system and the movement of information, symbols, capital and commodities in global and transnational spaces.
Despite the large capital investment required to modernize existing inland waterway systems and for new construction, water transport has demonstrated competitive strength as a carrier for commodities in the movement of which the time factor is not of prime importance, such as minerals, timber, and many agricultural products.
There has been a call for greater investigative powers for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (USCFTC) to determine the interrelationship of commodity trading and the movement of energy prices.
