Both Uses of

financial commodities

in

Ulysses by James Joyce

…the high at present unlit warehouses of Beresford place Stephen thought to think of Ibsen, associated with Baird's the stonecutter's in his mind somehow in Talbot place, first turning on the right, while the other who was acting as his fidus Achates inhaled with internal satisfaction the smell of James Rourke's city bakery, situated quite close to where they were, the very palatable odour indeed of our daily bread, of all commodities of the public the primary and most indispensable.†
Chpt 16

Accordingly his first act was with characteristic sangfroid to order these commodities quietly.†
Chpt 16 *

Definition:

(financial commodities as in: she trades commodities)
futures contracts (something to be delivered in the future) on bulk goods such as grains, metals, livestock, oil, cotton, coffee, sugar and cocoa