Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commodities trading is a nerve-racking business even under the best of circumstances, and hundreds of thousands of dollars can be won-and lost-by a 10? swing in the price of, say, soybeans, which were selling last week for as much as $6.58 per bu. But the speculative market performs an essential function: it helps give stability, or at least predictability, to the future price of grain. That enables everyone from Nebraska wheat growers to Boston bakers to make intelligent forecasts. Each one can determine just how much he will have to spend to buy or, conversely, how much...
...corn is $2.75 per bu. The farmer calculates that $2.75 per bu. for his crop would be a fair price, so he guarantees that he will get it by "hedging," or agreeing in advance to sell a contract for 50,000 bu. at that price in the futures market. This protects him against a drop in grain prices...
Every day farmers and others use commodities hedging, and far more complex investment techniques as well. So do the nation's large grain trading companies and food corporations like General Mills and ITT Continental Baking Co. Countless more ordinary investors are in the market hoping to make quick and stunning profits. If they are wrong, speculators must be prepared to lose big. Anyone who bet last autumn that January wheat prices would be headed up, and bought the maximum permissible number of 600 wheat futures contracts, could have lost $600,000 in a single day last week. Conversely, anybody...
...Then would you be in the market for U.S. arms...
...competitors, RCA and Magnavox, are battling for the new market and for partners to adopt their totally different technologies. Last week RCA, the parent of NBC, signed a major deal with its TV network rival, CBS. It was one of the rare times that the two giant entertainment and electronic companies have cooperated in an important...