Commodities Quotes

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Commodities are a great investment during an inflationary period because increases in the price of raw materials reflect the rising costs of goods.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you`re not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Throughout history the public has always piled into the latest bull market right at the top so few have caught on to the bull market in commodities.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

My parents` lot had literally crawled away from the second world war, taking with them two vital commodities by way of a survival mechanism: respectability and security. It was odd, coming from a Christian household, but the big thing was about not being what they called "common". I got all that, "Don`t play with him, he`s common". I had a friend called Grenville Barker who`d come round sometimes and play football on the lawn, but not very often. And I wasn`t allowed to go to his home very often because they were working class. He was what my mother called a bad influence. Everything had to do with influence. My mother was desperate I should be properly influenced, have a proper, received accent, be sent away to school at eight. So all you can do is go into yourself, immerse yourself in your own life.

But we have very, very narrow limits on all of our buying and selling of all of our commodities worldwide; different kinds of terms, etc.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

The time to own commodities is (or at least has been) when they are down, when everybody has lost money in them, and when they trade below the cost of production. That time is not now.

The distribution of essential commodities is going well, ... We are trying to get more supplies on the way, and the distribution seems to be working well.

There`s a long-term story of a supply-demand imbalance in commodities. The positive story for the stocks is still in place.

We continue to see fund action. They are coming in across the basket of commodities.

But if inventions have increased man`s power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Sake is fairly priced. It`s one of the few commodities that almost without exception goes up in quality as it goes up in price.

It`s a major impact, not only for the farmer, but it`s also the farm supply business, it`s trucking and it`s the end user of farm commodities.

We deeply regret Sen. Frist`s endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating living human embryos as mere fodder for experimentation crosses a vital ethical line and contravenes the sanctity of human life.