Sentences with phrase «low global commodity»

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Ethanol demand has been vital to farmers who are buffeted by low commodities prices and the threat of a global trade war.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

Overall, the global outlook has weakened further over the last six months — exacerbated by China's relative slowdown, lower commodity prices, and the prospect of financial tightening for many countries.

The exchange rate had declined, which would also assist in adapting to weak global conditions and lower commodity prices.

Of course, a significant weakening of the global economy would result in lower commodity prices and generally lower underlying inflation pressures.

But economists worry that the commodity mess reflects a weakening global economy, lowering the value of trade worldwide and perhaps even pushing some countries into the same kind of deflationary spiral that has hampered the Japanese economy for decades.

Ed Morse, the global head of commodities research at Citibank, predicted oil could go as low as $ 20.

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.

But again, the prediction that these would be star - performing economies was at best half right; as the commodities exporters (Indonesia and Nigeria) suffered from lower global prices, while Turkey and Mexico faced political turmoil.

Shifting (a nascent trend) from a global savings glut supported by lower commodity prices and toward narrowing global imbalances amid stronger global demand, which will depend to some extent on whether China can succeed in making the middle income transition.

On balance, the overall impact on the global economy of lower commodity prices is likely to be positive.

The Canadian economy continues to work its way back from the post-crisis global recession and the associated collapse in our exports while, at the same time, is adjusting to lower prices for oil and other commodities as well as a much lower exchange rate.

These questions come as EM stocks have had a rollercoaster year, with valuations beaten up by concerns about China's economy, slowing global growth and lower commodity prices, just to name a few of the headwinds facing developing markets.

The company added that global inventories of commodities were «generally low, both on exchanges and within supply chains», a sign of tightness in the physical market.

14th October 2016 Lower commodity prices, market instability, reduced investment and increased environmental awareness, have been cited as reasons for the global decrease in exploration activity by scientific agency for natural sciences the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The indirect effects are larger, though, because the currencies of America's two largest export markets — Mexico and Canada — tend to weaken when the Chinese economy slows and pushes global commodity prices lower.

We regard the greater stability in commodity prices, along with a lessening of volatility in financial markets, as welcome, and believe it should provide a more stable platform for the global economy, where growth remains acceptable, if lower than desirable.

The decline in mining investment has been, in part, a reaction to declining production and profits, caused by falling global demand and lower commodity prices during 1998 and early 1999.

The recent uptick in uranium appears to be due to the fact that the commodity price has been too low for too long with a majority of global production operating below cost.

There was a global impact on currencies and commodities including Crude Oil as they further corrected to new lows.

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.

Global equity markets have more than doubled from 2008 - 2009 financial crisis lows, but with concerns about China, credit, central bank policies, currencies and commodities all piling up, where do we go from here?

«It appears that four inter-linked phenomena are driving a negative feedback loop in the global economy and across financial markets,» the analysts write, citing the resilient US dollar, lower commodities prices, weaker trade and capital flows, and declining emerging market growth.

Furthermore, with slower global economic growth in the years ahead due to the U.S. consumer saving spree, worldwide financial deleveragings, low commodity prices, increased government regulation and protectionism, excess global capacity will probably be a chronic problem.

The company said it represented strong performance in the context of low global dairy commodity prices, significant increase in global dairy production and continuing sanctions in Russia affecting global supply and demand.

It notes that increased northern hemisphere production is outweighing any recovery in global demand, forcing international commodity prices lower.

Dairy products are New Zealand's largest commodity export and lower global prices are putting pressure on the nation's dairy farmers, weighing on the outlook for economic growth and putting dairy sector debt on the Reserve Bank's radar as a growing risk to financial stability.

Aluminium prices are at a four - year low and the outlook for the commodity for the next few years remains bleak amid global oversupply.

As Jonathon Bloom of Wasted Food explained, the existing food system perpetuates the overproduction of commodities, artificially low prices, and disproportionate use of our resources (80 % of water, 50 % of land and 10 % of global oil is used in food production).

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.

These questions come as EM stocks have had a rollercoaster year, with valuations beaten up by concerns about China's economy, slowing global growth and lower commodity prices, just to name a few of the headwinds facing developing markets.

Global equity markets have more than doubled from 2008 - 2009 financial crisis lows, but with concerns about China, credit, central bank policies, currencies and commodities all piling up, where do we go from here?

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.

What's more, offshore oil drilling will not guarantee lower fuel prices — oil is a global commodity, and US production is not big enough to influence global prices.

One thing that is definitely growing in the global legal market is legal process outsourcing — having commodity work or lower value work done by not necessarily law firms but services based in India or the Philippines where that work is predicated upon repetitive need for that type of work and we don't find we have the demand for that in Canada with respect to our business.

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«Rising incomes and population growth in emerging countries is increasing the demand for ag commodities at a time when global cereal stocks are low, production conditions in some major grain producing countries could potentially be challenging and the availability of quality farmland worldwide is limited,» says Gervais.