McKinsey Working Papers on Risk‚ Number 39 Commodity trading at a strategic crossroad Jan Ascher Paul Laszlo Guillaume Quiviger December 2012 © Copyright 2012 McKinsey & Company 2 Contents Commodity trading at a strategic crossroad Introduction and executive summary1 Changes in global commodity trading: Three trends 2 Imperatives for commodity traders 6 Conclusion8 McKinsey Working Papers on Risk presents McKinsey’s best current thinking on risk and risk
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Essay The Generation Gap The text represents an extract from the novel “Wheels” by Arthur Haily. The extract belongs to the belles-lettres style. The text looks at the relationship between Matt Zaleski and his daughter Barbara. The main theme of the extract is the generation gap. The author managed to reveal the inner corners of the characters’ soul through the description of their attitude to each other‚ their behaviour and outlook. At the very beginning Haily makes use of the
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and real estate developer Barbara Meyers. Ted and Bill Curry are the owners of Curry field. They have one of the best playgrounds in the area. The field has a lot of history and now they have renovated the entire stadium‚ but they do not own a baseball team. The brothers want to see one good team playing in what seems to be a tradition on their family. They love baseball and all they want is to bring the Sluggers to the fans and the city. In the other side is Barbara Meyers. She manage a baseball
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makes the following payments during 2011: How much rental income must Billy Dent include on his 2011 income tax return? 5‚000+4‚000= $9‚000 4-32 Arnold and Barbara Cane were divorced in June 2011. Pursuant to the divorce decree‚ Arnold is obliged to perform as follows: a. Transfer title of their personal home to Barbara. They purchased the house in 1998 and their basis today is $400‚000. The fair market value of the house is $500‚000. The house is subject to a 25-year‚ $250‚000 mortgage
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Barbara‚ a nurse‚ is accused of “murder”‚ by the audience of a TV show named the Phil Donahue show. She had a patient‚ named Mac‚ who had lung cancer and was resuscitate 52 times. It was between the years of 1970s and 80s‚ and the law of how many times someone should be resuscitated have not passed yet. Barbara injected Mac with pain medication and did not press the code button until after he was dead. Now after being resuscitated for that amount of time you could only imagine his pain and stress
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Nickel and Dimed is about a woman‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ working at a number of low-income jobs and writing about the experience. Barbara moves to three different cities in the United States to experience poverty and working conditions in those cities. Barbara spends about a month in each different city‚ where she works as a waitress‚ maid‚ and sales assistant‚ and reports on her experiences. She concludes by pointing out how difficult it is for low-income employees to get by and advocates policies
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A Tale of Two Pay Packets Pat works in the men’s clothing section of a well-known department store. He has been in that position for more than 20 years‚ and his hourly wage is $11.25 per hour. Across town‚ Lucy is working in another highly successful retail chain and earns slightly less‚ around $10.75 per hour. She will make $19‚000 a year‚ calculated over an average working week. Pat will make over $90‚000. Pat works at Nordstrom‚ Lucy is from Walmart‚ and both are employed at successful companies
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In this course the three poems that I related to the most was the ballad of a chocolate Mabbie by Gwendolyn Brooks (130) ‚ Bonny Barbara Allen by Anonymous (132)‚ and The Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (131). One of the main reason’s I found these poems the most interesting was because I was able to understand the writer and their point of view of the message on love that they were trying to share. The most easiest to analyze was the story of Mabbie‚ a poor girl who has a crush on a boy who barely
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for leadership like preachers‚ visionaries‚ and petitioners (Barbara Ritter Dailey‚ Anne Hutchinson). Like many people from around the same time‚ Hutchinson left nothing. There were only documents of the Antinomian Controversy. The evidence of her trials previously the General Court on November 1637 and the Church of Boston on March 1638. The documents display what she said which helped historians understand how things used to be (Barbara Ritter Dailey‚ Anne Hutchinson). Anne Hutchinson was born
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cruel world no more. On a dreary January morning in London‚ Sylvia Plath took her life. She gassed herself in her small‚ cold kitchen and ended her bittersweet life. Misery overcame every last bit of light in her world‚ and blew the candle out. Marty Ascher‚ publisher of the unabridged journals‚ supports that "When you die young like Dean or Monroe or Sylvia Plath‚ when your life ends in disaster‚ then you live on in legend‚ and you remain forever young." There is great debate between ’deciding’ if
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