Famous Quotes & Sayings

Commodities are significantly dislocated from underlying fundamentals, but what does inspire people about zinc is that it's the only commodity where we can say with hand on heart that supply will be constrained.

Core prices are going to continue to edge a little higher. The extreme increases in energy and commodity costs that we've had are going to seep through to the core. Core prices worry the Fed.

Compounding the problem is that commodity prices are pretty ordinary at the moment, and this is not helping net returns

This sounds ironic, but the growing need for fresh labor and investment are now weighing on profit trends, together with high levels of commodity prices.

We are viewing the lobster as a live creature rather than a commodity that deserves no concern.

McGregor Scott

We see general softness in the entire semiconductor industry, but particularly in commodity products. Customers are delaying their orders.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you are not a brand, you are a commodity.

Charles Babbage

The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.

There are a lot of investors out there who look at oil as a leading indicator for commodity investing.

There are many players in the commodity insurance business. But we feel insurance is a relationship business. People come to us with problems, and we try to give them solutions.

Hugh Laurie

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine.

Fred W. Friendly

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

David Harvey

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

There hasn't been a lot of correlation between commodity prices and inflation since 1990.

Most commodity prices ended firmer last week and that has revived confidence in metal stocks.

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We have some inflation at the pipeline level, rising commodity prices, crude, material prices, things of that nature, but that inflation doesn't always get passed on to the consumer level.

We have more than doubled that (2005) outlook and we have done that on the back of some very strong energy and commodity prices, and not without a lot of other good news. I don't see how it can continue.

US Federal Reserve will definitely raise the interests rates, however, current oil price is undergoing a relatively long period of climbing. By taking that kind of situation into consideration, it is an inevitable tendency the price of oil and commodity will continue to rise.

While commodity prices have been rising Australia's interest rate spread has been narrowing.

It isn't like you are replacing something (industrial and office properties) that is a precious commodity at this point. Vacancy rates are still pretty high.

A sector stock fund doesn't give one true exposure. There are times when the underlying commodity is moving and the companies are not. It's a different investment. So, when you're looking for true diversity, you want a direct relationship to the commodity.

As commodity prices go up, ultimately everyone will raise prices, including Tiffany. Tiffany wants to maintain its competitive position in the industry.

Australia's dollar is obviously growth sensitive and the market won't muck around in pricing it down when commodity prices fall.

Christopher Lasch

A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

I know they're going to get some relief on some of this commodity pricing, as long as oil doesn't go through $100 a barrel.

If there is blip in production costs or commodity prices, that's another thing, ... But right now, it's so competitive, retailers can't raise prices.

Peter Wright

A lot of those commodity stocks are pretty reasonably priced and we would continue to see gains in that sector, though they would be moderate.

It has been struggling either side of 6,000 for a few days now but it's been a fantastic first quarter. We've had a good run, buoyed up with a combination of takeover hopes and strong commodity prices.

High commodity prices are boosting miners' profits and so they are expanding and employing more people. Economic growth is strong enough to generate new jobs. The labor market remains in good shape.

He's probably going to be a hot commodity this year. Hope so, anyway.

It suggests there could be a profit squeeze in some of the cyclical industries, ... Autos. Household appliances. Anything that has a lot of raw commodity in it. The end user is going to have a hard time passing those costs on to the consumers.

In the last couple of weeks, two of the stronger sectors in terms of flows have been energy and materials, and so the whole commodity story is one that's been on investors' minds.