Sentences with phrase «falling prices also»

Falling prices also resulted in homes worth less than the mortgage loan, providing the lender with a financial incentive to enter foreclosure.

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Shares of the company, which makes aluminum products used in airplanes and trucks, fell 17.8 percent as the company also said high prices squeezed margins across its businesses in the first quarter.

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

The earnings were also a test for short sellers, who had piled on record bets that Tesla's stock price will fall.

Though it is acknowledged that both retail giants failed to keep up with the times, they have also been accused of failing to provide adequate online presence or more importantly, competitive prices for their customers; what can be learned from the fall of two former high street giants?

A sizable contingent of hedge fund managers are shorting Tesla, or betting that its share price will fall, including some who have also presented on stage at the Sohn Conference, including famed short - seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates, who has called Tesla the «anti-Amazon.»

BHP Billiton also said Tuesday that its annual profit fell nearly 30 per cent on lower prices for copper, coal and iron ore.

And then as Snap's price fell, other algorithms programmed to contain investor losses also deepened the selloff.

On the surface, Papa seems to have gotten an extraordinarily generous deal to turn around the beleaguered drug company: Not only is his salary more than twice what it was when he was CEO of Perrigo (prgo), a company nearly three times as valuable as Valeant (vrx), it's also especially good considering Valeant's stock price has fallen nearly 67 % since he took over.

Meanwhile, measures to rein in home prices are also taking effect in Hong Kong where house prices fell 0.6 percent on - year in June.

But price rises also moderated for other items such as television sets and processed food, a sign the increase in import costs from previous yen falls was dissipating.

He also thinks its price - to - earnings multiple, which is at about 14 times forward earnings, could fall.

The decline partly reflects falling hardware prices, Weins says, but competitive price cutting has also been a major factor.

Shares of GameStop are falling on weak holiday sales, while Nintendo shares are also down on its new «Switch» console pricing.

A separate index by the Bank of Japan that strips away the effect of energy costs also showed inflation slowing, suggesting that weak consumption and falling import costs are discouraging firms from raising prices for a broad range of goods.

He added that cryptocurrency investors are more interested in buying bitcoin versus «alt - coins,» but have less funds to do so because the alt - coins are also falling in price.

Interest in Bitcoin also appears to have waned, with the number of searches in the asset — which has generally followed its price — also falling since the start of the year.

Perth dwelling prices fell 1.7 per cent in the three months to March, while the average dwelling price across Australia's capital cities also fell for the first time in over three years.

The fact that ratings have fallen for some mainstream channels means that the amount of advertising time has also fallen, and that constraint in supply has pushed prices up in some cases.

Outback Western Australia is the worst - performing property market in the nation, according to a new report by ratings agency Moody's, which also found housing prices in Perth have fallen by 8 per cent since peaking in December 2014.

Montreal also fell into that category, but CMHC warned it might have to revise that assessment, given the rapid growth of house prices in some neighbourhoods.

As CNBC noted, miners not only have to deal with increasing competition and a falling Bitcoin price — they're also being stung by another part of their revenue, transaction fees.

Home Capital will also have a hard time selling foreclosed properties if prices are falling.

It also gradually phased out subsidies that kept retail fuel cheap, causing prices at the pump to climb by an average of nearly 25 % since 2014, even though global oil prices fell by as much as 75 % during that period.

Morgan Stanley also noted that oil and gas exports account for nearly 16 percent of Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP), and the sector has been hard hit by crude prices falling below $ 50 a barrel again.

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Thanks to a slowdown in China and other emerging markets, but also because of a sluggish U.S. economy and political risks in the Middle East, Madani thinks oil prices could fall to $ 75 a barrel next year.

Plus, because the company's wires are made of metal, the prices it can sell them for are also tied to the market price of copper and aluminum, which have fallen steeply since 2011.

The fall in global commodity prices has also hurt the company: Cheaper oil, for one, means that offshore drillers have less need for General Cable's heavy - duty products.

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.

The gold and copper miner, which also drills for oil and gas, has seen its bottom line dry up as the price of each of those natural resources has fallen sharply recently.

And despite the fact that Mylan raised EpiPen prices roughly 30 % in 2015 while prescription volume also grew 7 %, the company's revenue on the drug actually fell slightly, as the other players took even bigger cuts, according to Raffat.

The first was that natural gas prices also fell hard in 2012, hitting a 21st - century low of around $ 2 per thousand cubic feet (MCF) last June.

But another type of coal, metallurgical or coking coal, also saw prices fall by about 50 % last year.

The news also briefly gave a 5 percent boost to the company's otherwise free - falling stock price on Wednesday (it's down again 2 percent on Thursday).

Munoz's Take 2 apology also fell short, it seems to me — especially given that it arrived only after a cratering UAL stock price and widespread condemnation on global media and the Interwebs.

In addition to falling share prices and a lack of purchase offers, BlackBerry has also had to make staffing cuts.

Low gold prices are also expected to generate high demand in India as we approach fall festivals such as Diwali and Dussehra, not to mention weddings.

During this period, the rate of inflation in the United States fell to levels broadly consistent with most definitions of price stability, and inflation expectations at longer horizons imply confidence that these gains will also prove durable.

Also, some transactions may get more appealing when market prices fall.

Shah said that Zinsner also didn't appear worried that NAND pricing declines would continue, after they fell in February.

Aluminum prices also fell on the temporary reprieve.

Falling prices can also trigger computer - generated orders, which seems to have played a factor.

However, there were also high expectations that Snap stock prices would eventually fall, due to the aggressive competition in the industry and a slow growth in its user base.

The report also showed that system prices continued fall on a price per watt basis.

He was also concerned about the stock and its recent fall in price.

But they also attribute the price fall to a seasonal rise in stock, after a drought of low listings earlier in the year.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Hobart's prices also fell 4.8 per cent, but Brisbane prices were largely flat.

But the effect of the higher prices, assuming they are typically paid to suppliers elsewhere in the world, also acts somewhat like a tax on spending, hence aggregate demand falls.