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commodity

vr.tr.commodity · PHY.OBJ

Let an agent explain commodities and their kinds, relay how commodity markets, grades and pricing work from economics and industry sources, describe commodity chemicals and energy products, and distinguish commodities from differentiated products, securities and the Marxian sense of commodity, without giving personal investment advice.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems

Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain commodities and their kinds, relay how commodity markets, grades and pricing work from economics and industry sources, describe commodity chemicals and energy products, and distinguish commodities from differentiated products, securities and the Marxian sense of commodity, without giving personal investment advice.

A basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other goods of the same type, so that units are treated as equivalent regardless of producer, including primary commodities such as crude oil, natural gas, metals and agricultural products, and commodity chemicals and petrochemical products such as middle distillates and associated petroleum gas produced at scale to standard specifications; commodities are traded on spot and futures markets with standardised grades, and in economics the term also denotes any marketable good.

What it is for: Not applicable; a category of goods.

It can be explain the concept and kinds; relay markets and pricing; describe commodity chemicals and energy products; distinguish related senses.

Distinguishing features

Fungibility

Standard grades

Market pricing

Bulk production

What it looks like

Not a visible object as a category; bulk goods such as oil, grain and metals.

Physical character

major exchanges: CME, ICE, LME list

benchmark crudes: Brent, WTI list

How it is recognised

Interchangeable basic good

Primary commodities, commodity chemicals, petrochemical products, middle distillates, associated petroleum gas

Branded products are differentiated; securities are financial claims; the Marxian commodity is a theoretical concept

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

goods

is traded on - in spot and futures form

commodity market

is priced by - grades such as Brent

benchmark

is contrasted with - with brand value

differentiated product

In practice

Families and kinds

energy commodities such as crude oil, natural gas, associated petroleum gas and refined products including middle distillates

metals and minerals

agricultural commodities

commodity chemicals and petrochemical products

soft commodities such as coffee and cotton

commodity as any marketable good in economics

Standards and regulation

Exchange contract specifications and grading standards

Commodity market regulation such as the CFTC and MiFID rules

Product specifications such as ASTM fuel standards

Failure modes and hazards

Agents giving personal investment advice

Confusing commodities with commodity derivatives

Mixing the economic and Marxian senses

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.commodity

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a commodity is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a commodity, and how does fungibility distinguish it from differentiated products and securities? definition
  2. Is the question about commodities in general, a specific commodity, markets, or a personal investment decision the model does not advise on? boundary

Kinds

Kinds.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. What are energy, metal, agricultural and soft commodities, and what are commodity chemicals and petrochemical products? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific commodity? action
Markets Markets and pricing.

Sources.

Trading

Trading.

Trading

Trading.

  1. How do spot and futures markets, exchanges and benchmarks price commodities? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Grades

Grades and specifications.

Grades

Grades.

  1. How are grades and specifications set for crude oil, middle distillates, metals and grains? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Industry Production and chemicals.

Application.

Energy

Energy products.

Energy

Energy.

  1. How are associated petroleum gas and straight-run middle distillates produced and used? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific product? action

Chemicals

Commodity chemicals.

Chemicals

Chemicals.

  1. What are commodity chemicals, and how do they differ from specialty chemicals? provenance
  2. Which entry fits commodity chemicals? action
Context Economics and theory.

Context.

Economics

Economics.

Economics

Economics.

  1. How do commodity cycles, supercycles and dependence affect economies, with analyses attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits commodity dependence? action

Theory

Theoretical senses.

Theory

Theory.

  1. What is the commodity in Marxian and classical economics, and how does commoditisation apply to products? provenance
  2. Which entry fits commodity (Marxism)? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should commodity market and commodity chemical be separate primary entries?
  • How should economics and industry sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific products and a print term; should they be split off?