Sentences with phrase «higher global commodity prices»

Increased demand for crops to make fuel results in higher global commodity prices that can induce farmers in other countries to plow up new ground, including sensitive, high - carbon ecosystems such as tropical forests in South America and Southeast Asia or peatland in Southeast Asia.

Not exact matches

In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and force the Fed to reverse course.

While fluctuations in the global price of coffee on the commodity markets led industry behemoth Starbucks to boost its per - cup price tag last month, a growing share of consumer dollars are going to higher - cost specialty or craft coffee.

Its relatively high global position reflects the special place the Australian dollar holds in portfolios of international funds managers because of its relation to commodity prices, offering a degree of diversification from other currencies.

For decades, we have been living off unsustainably high commodity prices, particularly for oil and gas, at the expense of innovation and global competitiveness.

Global equity sentiment remains a bit shaky as concerns over rising commodity prices and higher interest rates continue to suggest lower corporate margins for the...

Global equity sentiment remains a bit shaky as concerns over rising commodity prices and higher interest rates continue to suggest lower corporate margins for the remainder of 2018.

But the New Zealand dairy giant's chief executive Theo Spierings, said this was too high and did not reflect a collapse of global prices for key dairy commodities.

Merricks Capital, which specialises in soft commodities, helped to create derivative contracts with the major US hamburger companies to allow them to hedge the cost of Australian beef while allowing them to profit from anomalies in global beef prices, such as the perceived high price of Australian cattle.

The majority of internationally traded commodity dairy products traded in the latest Fonterra Global Dairy Trade auction event sold for higher prices, arresting a series of price slides dating back to December 6.

Despite the more difficult global environment, with lower commodity prices and domestic power shortages, economic growth in 2015 was close to 4 percent, slightly higher than expected.

Higher commodity prices and an improving global economy have pushed up the prices of many junior mining stocks recently.

With yield an ever - scarcer commodity, relatively high rates that U.S. bonds offer alongside a strong U.S. dollar are attracting global capital flows and pushing bond prices higher and yields lower.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx [2] «Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming» www.pnas.org/content/101/27/9971.full [3] «This paper concludes that a stronger link between energy and nonenergy commodity prices is likely to be the dominant influence on developments in commodity, and especially food, markets.»