the raw

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What one strategist argues, therefore, is that investors should plow capital into the energy stocks providing the raw materials that technology stocks desperately require to grow.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

A year later, the bill is still being processed, but I’m on track to see a $200 reduction in the raw bill.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026

Higher prices pushed chocolatiers to use ingredients other than cocoa or develop the raw material in labs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Some 20% of the world's oil trade, the raw ingredient for producing both petrol and diesel, has been halted by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Finally, the hereditary changes called mutations provide the raw material for evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan