What is the difference between equities and commodities ?

Question

As they pertain to the stockmarket.

Answer 1

Equities are shares in companies. Commodities are things you buy (usually for the future) like gold, sugar, oil, gas, rice etc ; things that are used as raw or base materials.

Answer 2

Do believe equities are instruments like stocks and bonds while commodities are goods that are consumed.

Answer 3

Share market concerns equities in shares. Commodities refers to comodity like, Whet, Gold, Reice and many more which are dealt in comodity market. Share ( equities ) concern paper. Comodity concern any kind of produce.

Answer 4

Equities is another name for shares or stocks. To have equity in an asset is to own a piece of it; equities is used more broadly to mean ownership interests in companies. Equities are distinguished from bonds, which represent loans to the issuer. Holders of equities may or may not receive dividends of varying size, depending on the company's earnings and dividend policy. Bondholders receive regular interest payments. Both the prices of equities and bonds may go up or down. But in general the prices of equities are more volatile, and holders of equities are more likely to look to capital appreciation (an increase in stock price) to provide a suitable return on their investment. Because of the greater likelihood of capital appreciation but the more uncertain outlook for a consistent stream of cash payments, equities are usually the more aggressive investment. However, equities are as diverse as the companies they represent. Some equities offer consistent dividend payments but only slow, if steady capital appreciation. Other equities offer no dividends, but the real, if uncertain, prospect of large price increases.

Commodities are pertaining to metal, silver, gold, zinc and, particularly investors like gold bullion ****. Sometimes it include food items of wheat, rice, or coffee. Nowadays, investors are getting more greedy and materialistic, and almost every one of them just want to make money by transaction on anything without thinking it will harm the third world countries' consumers. As the prices go up, peoples in the developed countries do make money and the third world peoles are going to die because simply they can't afford to buy and to eat.

Answer 5

equities are the shares of companies and are traded on stock exchanges...where as commodities are traded on commodity exchanges and commodities are not of companies they are goods which are produced in farms..like tea,coffee,chilli,black pepper etc.....