BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Commodity
- a good or service, for example, cotton, wool, or a laptop computer, resulting from a production process
Wiktionary Definition for: Commodity
- Anything movable that is bought and sold (i.e., reality), with the exception of animals.
Additional Resources
- Benefits of Commodity Investment
- Direct commodity investment has historically been a minor part of investors' asset allocation. In recent years, however, investible commodity indices and commodity-linked assets have increased the number of available commodity-based products. In this article, the various theoretical arguments for the relative risk and return advantages of direct commodity investment are...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- The Benefits Of Commodity Investment
- This article describes direct commodity investments as a historically been a minor part of investors' asset allocation decision. In contrast it also talks about indirect investment (e.g., equity or debt ownership of firms specializing in direct commodity market production) was the principal means of obtaining claims on commodity investment. This...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Facts and Fantasies About Commodity Futures
- This paper produces some stylized facts about commodity futures and addresses some commonly raised questions: Can an investment in commodity futures earn a positive return when spot commodity prices are falling? How do spot and futures returns compare? What are the returns to investing in commodity futures, and how do...
- White papers 2004-06-14
- Optimal Inventory-Management-Policy For Commodity Storage-Assets
- Commodity storage-assets can be either physical storage-facilities, or contracts guaranteeing their use. Merchants employ them to support their commodity-trading activities in wholesale markets, which are characterized by notoriously volatile prices. Managing a storage asset requires determining an inventory-management policy, which, given a realization of the commodity price, consists of choosing...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Commodity indexes: the next generation.
- Two commodity indexes Commodity Research Bureau CRB and Goldman Sachs Commodity Index GSCI are in for a healthy competition at the stock exchanges. Although CRB did not cause any major sensation after it entered the New York Future Exchange in Jun 198Two commodity indexes Commodity Research Bureau CRB and Goldman...
- Research articles 1992-10-01
- Tough Outlook for Commodity Indexes
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Investors in commodity futures - and that includes all the people who own commodity futures ETFs - are in a world of hurt. It's bad enough that spot commodity prices are crashing. Oil is down nearly $100 from its highs, and copper and other commodities are...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Upgrade your commodity buying strategy. (part 1)
- Getting a handle on commodity procurement costs isn't always easy--especially when the commodity in question is traded on a major commodity exchange. Speculation and sudden swings in investor moods can, and often do, play havoc with projected costs. What to do? Commodity...
- Research articles 1993-09-09
- Commodity Research Bureau , a provider of commodity market information, has completed the acquisition of Commodity Price Charts from Futures Magazine Group , the publisher of "Futures" magazine
- Commodity Research Bureau (CRB; Chicago, IL), a provider of commodity market information, has completed the acquisition of Commodity Price Charts from Futures Magazine Group (Chicago, IL), the publisher of "Futures" magazine. No terms were given. The acquired product, renamed CRB PriceCharts, is a print publication focused on charting and technical...
- Research articles 2006-05-17
- The Trader's Expo New York: A Commodity Trader's Stock Picks
- Earnings Call ExcerptSpeakersJohn Person, President, John Person, Inc. Editor, The Bottom LineSaturday, February 21, 2009About the SpeakerJohn Person, president of John Person, Inc., is a 27-year veteran trader in the futures and options markets and is a registered Commodity Trader Advisor. His book, The Complete Guide to Technical Analysis...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-26
- Rising Commodity Prices Reflect Global Commerce Revival
- Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Commodity prices are an excellent way of keeping tabs in real time on the progress of the global economy. Copper has been leading the way, now up 124% from its lows of last year; crude oil is up 110%; the Journal of Commerce index...
- External links 2009-08-05
- CFTC Moves to Curb Speculation In Commodity Markets
- Gabriel Kurland submits: The Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC) has not been long to take actions following the three days hearing held in Washington regarding speculation in the commodity markets. According to the Financial Times: A commodity investment unit of Deutsche Bank and another fund group have been stripped of...
- External links 2009-08-21
- The Tactical and Strategic Value of Commodity Futures
- Historically, commodity futures have had excess returns similar to those of equities. But what should we expect in the future? In addition, the evidence suggests that commodity futures are an inconsistent, if not tenuous, hedge against unexpected inflation. Further, the historically high average returns to a commodity futures portfolio are...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Commodity repos - a new way to cut inventory costs. (commodity repurchase agreements)
- Add commodity repurchase Repo agreements to the increasingly sophisticated arsenal of weapons being used to contain inventory carrying costs. Long used for complex financial transactions, the Repo approach was introduced into the commodity area Add commodity repurchase Repo agreements to the increasingly...
- Research articles 1995-07-13
- Timing is everything, especially with a commodity index: two relatively simple indicators, the price structure of GSCI futures and the Fed's current monetary policy, can be very useful for profitable futures trading.(Trading Techniques)
- Commodity futures programs are continuing to attract significant capital from investors. According to Goldman Sachs, an estimated $12 billion is invested in or benchmarked to the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index GSCI. Commodity futures programs are continuing to attract significant capital from investors....
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Riding the Rim in managed money. (managed commodity funds in the Asian Pacific Rim region) (Managed Money)
- It's 1992, and the rest of the world is catching up with the United States in terms of managed commodity funds. The numbers are starting: in Japan, commodity houses have sold more than 44 funds with almost $1 billion raised. This is a product that ju ...
- Research articles 1992-09-01
- Direxion Funds Changes Commodity Bull Fund Investment Objectives, Tracking Morgan Stanley® Commodity Related Index at 200 Percent Leverage; Fund Avoids Direct Commodity Investments Limited by IRS
- BOSTON & NEW YORK -- Direxion Funds, a leading provider of leveraged index and alternative-class mutual fund products, has changed the investment objective of its commodity bull fund, and renamed it the Direxion Commodity Bull 2x Fund to reflect the increased leverage that it now offers.
- Research articles 2006-07-12
- PowerShares and Deutsche Bank Unite to Deliver Commodity and Currency ETFs
- NEW YORK & CHICAGO -- Deutsche Bank DB and PowerShares today announced plans to re-brand the DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund as the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (symbol: DBC). This effort combines Deutsche Bank's leadership in global currency and commodity product structuring with the exchange-traded fund ETF product...
- Research articles 2006-07-27
- Economic development policymaking down the global commodity chain: attracting an auto industry to Silao, Mexico.
- This article applies the global commodity chain approach to analyze the way policymakers encouraged an automotive commodity chain to touch down in Silao, Mexico. The article explains that the changing dynamics of the global auto industry have transformed it into an "assembler-driven" commodity chain. It notes how policymakers in the...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- U.S. FSA: USDA announces commodity credit corporation lending rates for June 1998
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 June 1998-U.S. FSA: USDA announces commodity credit corporation lending rates for June 1998 C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:010698 The interest rate for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans disbursed by USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation during June is 5.5 percent, up .125 percent...
- Research articles 1998-06-01
- U.S. FSA: USDA announces commodity credit corporation lending rates for July 1998
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 July 1998-U.S. FSA: USDA announces commodity credit corporation lending rates for July 1998 C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:010798 The interest rate for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans disbursed by USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation during July is 5.375 percent, down .125 percent...
- Research articles 1998-07-01
