1.   Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same force majeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market.

2.   Workers are said to be rationed in the labour market and firms are said to be rationed in the commodity market.

3.   Many commodity markets are institutionally well suited to speculation, having developed facilities for buying crops before they are harvested for small down-payments.

4.   And in commodity markets today, copper prices fell to the lowest level in more than five weeks.

5.   As is the case with any commodities market, the price of the goods depends on supply and demand.

6.   At another firm, where he had tracked the commodities markets, he had proved himself a canny reader of tea leaves.

7.   Avramovic wrote extensively on economic issues, particularly on international indebtedness, commodity markets and the industrialization of developing countries.

8.   Both questioned her expertise and competence in regulating the commodities markets.

9.   A rally in commodity markets, fueled by gains in crude oil amid rising tensions in the Middle East, contributed to the strength in soybeans and corn.

10.   Also falling was the commodities market, but falling prices there for agricultural goods and other raw materials are taken as a good sign for the economy.