commodity
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“The signal matters: attempts to contain borrowing costs without addressing the underlying fiscal imbalance may fuel concerns about financial repression and currency debasement,” said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But Noah Weisberger, chief strategist at BCA Research, believes the neoclouds may “destroy capital” as they invest borrowed cash to grow what will turn out to be a low-margin commodity service.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
But sinking much more money than planned into major oil and gas projects is hard to justify unless there’s a strong case that commodity prices can stay higher for longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The miner also reported record iron ore production and a strong result in coal, but copper was the star commodity and expected to remain so.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It might not buy her anything but time, but right now time was the most valuable commodity in the world.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Lower market prices for farm commodities and higher costs for fuel and fertilizer have eroded farmers’ incomes, causing them to refrain from buying new tractors, harvesters and other equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
But it noted that "For many bulk commodities, transport is an important component of the delivered price, so sustained increases will ultimately be felt further down the supply chain."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Michigan State’s Yeargain, writing in the Missouri Law Review in 2020 about fake polls affecting prediction markets, argued that publishing fake polls to influence betting markets was either commodities fraud or wire fraud, or both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Likewise shorting commodities here would run counter to current consensus.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Along with the crops, they were useful commodities in the marketplaces of each city in the trade networks initially established by the Toltecs.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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