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  2. Commodity - Wikipedia

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    Most commodities are raw materials, basic resources, agricultural, or mining products, such as iron ore, sugar, or grains like rice and wheat. Commodities can also be mass-produced unspecialized products such as chemicals and computer memory. Popular commodities include crude oil, corn, gold and Bitcoin.

  3. List of traded commodities - Wikipedia

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    Commodity Main exchange MIC Contract size Symbol Corn: CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu C/ZC (Electronic) Corn EURONEXT: 50 tons EMA Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu O/ZO (Electronic) Rough Rice CBOT: XCBT: 2000 cwt: ZR Soybeans CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu: S/ZS (Electronic) No 2. Soybean DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons b Rapeseed: EURONEXT 50 ...

  4. Commodity market - Wikipedia

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    A commodities exchange is an exchange where various commodities and derivatives are traded. Most commodity markets across the world trade in agricultural products and other raw materials (like wheat, barley, sugar, maize, cotton, cocoa, coffee, milk products, pork bellies, oil, metals, etc.) and contracts based on them. These contracts can ...

  5. Raw material - Wikipedia

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    Sulfur at harbor in North Vancouver, British Columbia, ready to be loaded onto a ship Latex being collected from a tapped rubber tree. A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished goods, energy, or intermediate materials that are feedstock for future finished products.

  6. Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Fact Sheet

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    The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM aims to provide broadly diversified representation of commodity markets as an asset class. Key Features — The index is made up of exchange-traded futures on physical commodities. — The index represents 19 commodities, which are weighted to account for economic significance and market liquidity.

  7. Commercial classification of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    The concept of basic chemicals is very close to chemical commodities. In fact basic chemicals are chemical substances used as a starting material for the production of a wide variety of other chemicals; for this reason they are in general commodities, because they are highly demanded.

  8. Agricultural Adjustment Act - Wikipedia

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    Wheat, cotton, field corn, hogs, rice, tobacco, and milk and its products were designated as basic commodities in the original legislation. Subsequent amendments in 1934 and 1935 expanded the list of basic commodities to include rye, flax, barley, grain sorghum, cattle, peanuts, sugar beets, sugar cane, and potatoes. [1]

  9. 2008-03-26 Commodities are No Country for Old Men

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    The decision for commodity suppliers to break from traditional industry practices on pricing has made valuing commodities extremely difficult for the market. It has also made static executives exclaim, “I no longer believe in the market’s self healing power”– here is a good example of the pitfalls of executive compensation.