Furthermore, secured claims and administrative expense claims are paid ahead of unsecured claims. To make matters a bit more Â­confusing, Section 364(c)(1) provides that certain Â­super-priority claims are to be paid even Â­before administrative expense claims.
The market price of a commodity that is quoted in the news is often the market futures price for that respective commodity. As with equity securities, a commodities futures price is determined primarily by the supply and demand for the commodity in the market. For example, let's look at oil. If the supply of oil increases, the price of one barrel of oil will decrease.
People watching commodities markets love to make predictions. On where prices will be a year, two years or ten years from now. Every brokerage house turns out a slate of forecast prices for oil, copper, sugar and every other hard asset. Pulling exact prices from the future is critical for investment advisors. Brokerage house analysts love to build financial models to predict the value of resource companies.