1.   But government bond trading throughout Wall Street has become more of a commodity business.

2.   But making tyres is a commodity business in which economies of scale matter a lot.

3.   The group became a sales juggernaut in the commodity options business.

4.   Firms that remain in commodity type business are under particular pressure to contain their costs, given that success in such markets typically flows to the lowest cost producer.

5.   Analyst Steve Allen said HP will likely phase out the commodity PC business.

6.   And as personal computers become a commodity business, competition in the services sector is heating up as more hardware vendors try to move up the food chain.

7.   A. The thing you have to keep in mind about the oil business is that it is a commodity business.

8.   But its IIE division in some ways is trapped in a commodity business, with intense price competition and narrow margins.

9.   By selling Fairchild he moved the company out of the commodity chip business.

10.   Companies also will have to offer security systems, appliance repair and cable services to compete in what would otherwise be a commodity business vulnerable to price wars.