Sentences with phrase «canadian dollar price»

After my post last night got me reading Budget 1980 and the National Energy Program, I stumbled upon something completely fascinating: the hated National Energy Program proposed an indexed price for synthetic crude from oil sands projects which, had it been followed until today, would have been above the Canadian dollar price of WTI in -LSB-...]

The Canadian dollars price activity usually follows the same trend because the United dollar tend to follow similar trends, so this could be a reduced risk solution to consider when investing.

Not exact matches

Crude oil prices in Canadian dollars for Brent (North Sea, UK), West Texas Intermediate (Cushing, OK, USA), and Edmonton Par.

The report blamed the Canadian dollar's appreciation, which eroded price competitiveness, «as well as the rapid growth in emerging markets as a tourist destination.»

Later, in a response to a question on why the Canadian dollar remains buoyant despite so many negatives, the governor said Canadian asset prices tend to track what's happening in the U.S. because, historically, when the American economy grows, the Canadian economy grows with it.

Raising rates while the Federal Reserve in the U.S. keeps printing money will send the Canadian dollar higher, increasing the price of exports and hurting the profitability of manufacturers.

Vallée's advice: sell the Canadian dollar now while it's hot, and then buy it back at a cheaper price before it goes even higher.

As long as production levels stay high, the outlook for oil prices will remain weak, as will the Canadian dollar, the TSX and the job prospects for those in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador.»

Since last year, the near - term price of WTI crude, in Canadian dollars, has dropped by almost $ 25 per barrel, and the long - term futures price by $ 10, when you take into account futures market prices for Canadian dollars as well.

The future viability of oil sands projects depends not just on your view of world oil prices — it depends just as much on how these factors evolve, in particular discounts to Canadian heavy products and the Canadian dollar.

This puts deflationary pressure on prices in Canada, since imports are relatively less expensive when priced in Canadian dollars.

First, I want to look at how the changes not just in oil prices, but also changes in diluent costs, discounts for oil sands crude relative to light crude and, in particular, the fall of the Canadian dollar have changed the outlook for new oil sands projects — for those under construction, and for those currently operating.

Suppose the Canadian dollar rises, causing Canadian prices (in Canadian dollars) to rise above U.S. prices (in U.S. dollars).

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

Canadians have benefited a great deal from the increase in the Canadian dollar, even if they are not seeing lower prices at the register.

Canadian companies, which sell oil priced in U.S. dollars but pay costs in loonies, will also benefit from a rising greenback and, ultimately, that more resilient heavy oil price, adds Stelmach.

The pipeline or any other way to bring Western Canadian Crude to Tex refiners would speed up oil extraction in Alberta and increase world supplies, which would bring down oil prices for all Americans, by about a dollar a barrel according to Levi.

Oil prices have traditionally been a key driver of the Canadian dollar.

Ruined vacation plans, higher cauliflower costs, egregious gas prices — the collapse of the Canadian dollar is taking a toll on consumers.

In addition, the correlation between oil and the Canadian dollar has weakened over the past three years, suggesting that recent price swings in oil haven't been of great enough magnitude to materially influence the loonie.

That's because oil prices have stabilized, and also because traders appear to assume a stronger U.S. dollar means the Canadian currency should be stronger too.

«The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation's top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows,» the billionaire and former three - term mayor of New York wrote ahead of Trudeau's arrival for town - hall event on live television.

The low Canadian dollar used to be the main culprit in higher book prices, but lately the difference is more likely due to the influence of Canadian copyright rules, which grant Canadian distributors exclusivity — and allow them to add up to 10 % to the price of U.S. books.

The final sale price is expected to be well north of a billion dollars, which would make it the largest real estate transaction in Canadian history — possibly double the previous record of $ 618 million that CIBC fetched in 2000 for its Commerce Court complex in Toronto.

And it said it planned on lowering the prices of more items to about $ 1 as it also answers the expansion by Canadian dollar store operator Dollarama Inc. (TSX: DOL).

Said Poloz: «That comparative advantage has been strengthened by the decline in the Canadian dollar in the past couple of years — a symptom of falling resource prices, and a facilitator of the rotation of growth from resource production to other sectors.»

Although the stock is undervalued compared to Canadian telecoms, the dollar price isn't cheap.

That advantage is erased now that the dollar is near parity, and since there has been little attempt to differentiate Canadian lobster beyond price, Americans have little incentive to buy it.

The crudest version of this story says that Ottawa should increase spending as a direct response to the fall in oil prices and the resulting depreciation of the Canadian dollar.

SAINT ANDREWS, N.B. — Even with the Canadian dollar and energy prices at rock - bottom levels, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remains convinced that his long - promised, big - budget infrastructure investment will be the answer to all short - and long - term ills.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

The combined effects of drought in California and the falling Canadian dollar have caused the price of cauliflower to triple since the fall.

However, the Canadian dollar is expected to see minimal benefit from higher oil prices: a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate hike is likely in the first half of 2017, which would bolster the U.S. dollar, while the Bank of Canada is expected to hold steady on rates.

Total CPI inflation remains near the bottom of the Bank's target range as the disinflationary effects of economic slack and low consumer energy prices are only partially offset by the inflationary impact of the lower Canadian dollar on the prices of imported goods.

High loonie due to petrodollar effect = > loss of profit margin due to decline in final US selling price wrt Canadian dollar costs = > layoffs = > Dutch Disease.

Global economic forces — the sharp movement of commodity prices; the Great Recession and the lacklustre global economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply chains.

Peter Kent: Carbon pricing in any form is a carbon tax, because to be a realistic dollar figure, it would get Canadians at the gas pump for example, and right across the economy, but at the gas pump, it would get us to where Europeans are.

While most survey respondents cited elevated imported raw material costs, some firms commented on successful price negotiations following the recent strengthening of the Canadian dollar.

Briefing highlights

* Politics and Hydro One

* Bombardier sells Downsview

* Global markets mixed so far

* New York futures up

* Canadian dollar about 78 cents

* Toronto home prices slip

* What to watch for today

Roughly since [1906], Ontario has been embroiled in politics with the electricity sector — ...

And that's the point, really: that increased demand for the Canadian dollar affects other industries precisely because it makes the REAL price of Canadian goods higher relative to the same goods produced in other countries, not just nominal price.

On the other side of the ledger, the decline in the Canadian dollar has raised the price of a wide range of imports.

The coincident strength of commodity prices and the Canadian dollar in recent years has been treated by some as prima facie evidence of Dutch Disease in Canada.

The former because it allows for a case in which a modest increase in demand leads to a large increase in price, and the latter because it would lead investors to hedge by moving themselves into Canadian dollars (more than they would otherwise) to protect against high oil prices.

Contrary to popular belief, commodity prices are not the best predictor of the future exchange rate for the Canadian dollar, according to new research from the C.D. Howe Institute.

The Star's Ellen Roseman reported Wednesday that some Canadian mobile phone users have come home to unexpected bills amounting to hundreds of dollars due to complex pricing and lack of information.

This means that Western Canadian Select, currently trading at 37.27, is already below that much - hyped $ 40 mark, and while Brent oil prices fell nearly 50 cents on Thursday, Qatar's Marine blend was up by a dollar.

This was driven by a spike in international visitors thanks to lower fuel prices, the lower Canadian dollar, and more direct flights to Vancouver International Airport.

Signs of global economic turmoil are being seen from falling stock market and crude oil prices to the weakest Canadian dollar since 2004.

The international demand for Canadian dollars appears to have broken from its traditional link to oil and other commodity prices, the central bank said.

Last week the Governor of the Bank of Canada, Stephen Poloz, warned Canadians that they should get used to a low dollar, since this was a normal and, indeed, the necessary response to a global reduction in oil and commodity prices.