1.   Sales of the old industrial commodities of iron and coal are still important.

2.   And key industrial commodity prices have fallen in the past month, suggesting inflation remains subdued.

3.   Bargain hunters also moved into paper issues amid prospects of good earnings for industrial commodities next year.

4.   But companies that depend on exports, or those that produce industrial commodities, are not doing so well.

5.   But he said that he expected a continuation of the divergence in performance between industrial commodities, which have thrived, and agricultural commodities, which have slumped.

6.   But their increases are much more modest than the jump in crude oil, which is also an industrial commodity.

7.   But the rise in industrial commodities is not, as it has been in the past, an early warning signal for inflation.

8.   Companies with excess supplies of industrial commodities, or firms in desperate need of a few thousand extra computers, are turning first to the Internet auctioneers.

9.   Consider the producers of such industrial commodities as copper.

10.   He noted that the industrial production data showed some moderation in manufacturing growth, especially when combined with recent weakness in several industrial commodity prices.