Comments on: Commodities? http://commoditytradingquestions.org/commodity-trading/commodities Answers to all of your questions about commodity trading. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: kartik_santhanam http://commoditytradingquestions.org/commodity-trading/commodities/comment-page-1#comment-2 kartik_santhanam Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:36:29 +0000 http://commoditytradingquestions.org/commodity-trading/commodities#comment-2 The following are characteristics of a commodity - indifferentiable (cannot be distinguished) - reasonably high volume of trade - price driven primarily by demand and supply and not by value additions alone Hence, commodity need not always be unprocessed products. even value added products with -a significant amount of volume -& and not much value differences between competing products will be commodities Say for example, even unleaded oil or bulk drugs The following are characteristics of a commodity
- indifferentiable (cannot be distinguished)
- reasonably high volume of trade
- price driven primarily by demand and supply and not by value additions alone

Hence, commodity need not always be unprocessed products.

even value added products with
-a significant amount of volume
-& and not much value differences between competing products
will be commodities

Say for example, even unleaded oil or bulk drugs

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