Sentences with phrase «stable oil prices»

As Kurt Reiman, BlackRock's chief investment strategist for Canada noted in a recent blog, we believe the prospects for Canadian stocks have improved following a disappointing first half with relatively attractive valuations and more stable oil prices potentially leading to a period of outperformance.

Improvement in the labor market, positive sales growth, rise in disposable income, expansion of retail chains, declining / stable oil prices, and escalating healthcare costs are expected to drive growth for the packaging industry over the next six months.

• There are predictions that oil markets could see stable oil prices in excess of $ 80 per barrel within the next 5 years (2017 to 2023 - World Bank Oil Price Forecast).

As Kurt Reiman, BlackRock's chief investment strategist for Canada noted in a recent blog, we believe the prospects for Canadian stocks have improved following a disappointing first half with relatively attractive valuations and more stable oil prices potentially leading to a period of outperformance.

Here's my math on the consumer assuming 150k monthly employment growth and relatively stable oil prices from current levels.

Meanwhile, a number of EM governments are implementing reforms that could help spur growth, and lower and stable oil prices may benefit oil importers in the emerging world.

From July 2016 to the end of second - quarter 2017, more than 80 percent of the companies listed in the S&P 500 declared dividends, as stable oil prices, low wage growth and a weaker US currency have all added to the overall corporate profits.

Stable oil prices, improvements in SUV and truck design, and a big shift in consumer tastes seem to spell the end of sedans and small cars in the U.S.

It notes that shares of Exxon tend to perform better against a relatively stable oil price backdrop.

Not exact matches

SINGAPORE, May 2 - Oil prices were stable on Wednesday, supported by concerns that the United States may re-impose sanctions on major exporter Iran, although soaring U.S. supplies capped gains.

Oil prices, a major cost for airlines, are «stable» for now, Tan said.

Schlumberger (slb), the oil and gas services giant, has a dominant market share and stable underlying businesses, but its relationship to volatile oil prices buffets the stock quite a bit.

Long gone are the days when Saudi Arabia acted as the so - called «swing producer» in the global oil market, when it would increase or decrease production to keep prices stable and profits high.

SINGAPORE, May 2 (Reuters)- Oil prices were stable on Wednesday, supported by concerns that the United States may re-impose sanctions on major exporter Iran, although soaring U.S. supplies capped gains.

After all, it was the expansion in North American oil production that helped keep oil prices stable over the past three years, despite significant geopolitical disruptions in the Middle East and Africa.

Oil prices, which have recently received some support from reports about discussions of another possible extension of the OPEC production cut deal, remained stable following the release of the EIA report, with WTI trading at US$ 48.75 a barrel and Brent crude at US$ 54.62 a barrel.

Of course, day - to - day there has been volatility as usual, but oil prices have been stable (relatively speaking) since the end of April.

In spite of analyst warnings, prices remained stable after the third weekly crude oil inventory increase, suggesting that market players have already factored in the prolonged consequences of Hurricane Harvey and Irma on oil dynamics in the United States.

After declining for 18 months, oil prices have been stable since the spring.

LONDON (Reuters)-- Banks» metals - related revenues exceeded their earnings from the oil sector last year for the first time since 2014 as low and relatively stable crude prices discouraged hedging activity, but this is unlikely to be the start of a new trend.

The Bank's usual practice is to assume for our projection that oil prices will remain stable and use our economic models to test alternative scenarios.

Should North American oil suppliers continue to pump a considerable amount of oil, gas prices could remain stable and possibly even pressured.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

As Keith Schaefer tells The Energy Report, that means it's time to be nimble, and to keep small positions until oil finds a stable new price level.

By: Mahmoud Gamal Dubai — Mubasher: Sovereign ratings for the UAE have been stable lately, while oil prices have acted as catalysts, offering sovereign flexibility on the funding side, Philipp Good, CEO and head of portfolio management at Fisch...

A business might hedge against rising oil prices, for example, by buying a financial product to secure stable fuel costs.

Its economy was growing at 7 percent with a stable currency and oil prices were rising.

Many owners and managers also worried about market volatility around natural gas pricing compared with prices for residual oil, which they knew to be stable and historically less expensive than other fuels.

In June a much - touted report by Leonardo Maugeri — an Italian oil executive now at the Geopolitics of Energy Project, based at Harvard University and part - funded by BP — forecast that far from running out of oil, this decade will see the strongest growth in production capacity since the 1980s and a «significant, stable dip of oil prices».

Consider that during the 1990s the price of oil was fairly stable, averaging $ 28 a barrel (in 2011 dollars).

Despite sharply rising tensions in the Middle East, oil prices had seemed fairly stable - if quite low - as 2016 began.

Despite stable and even declining crude - oil prices, retail gasoline prices have experienced a slow but steady climb since the beginning of the year.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

While oil supply and reserves have also increased, the pricing for oil and other liquids has remained more stable and more profitable.

Despite oil price declines, the three oil supermajors in my portfolio (RDS, XOM, CVX) have been quite resilient so far, holding dividends stable (XOM slightly increased dividends in spring 2016).

Though, for all the drama of this month, attributable to the drop in oil prices -LRB--24 % YTD), weakness in the Chinese economy, and a major sell - off in equities, bond returns look relatively stable.

With so much of their economy based on oil sands, fracking, and refineries, Canada depends on a decent global oil price in order to be economically stable.

But if oil prices remain above about $ 70 per barrel, sufficient investment will occur to sustain continued growth in production, possibly leading to a stable phenomenon of oil overproduction after 2015.

The dramatic rise in shale - gas extraction and the tight - oil revolution (mostly crude oil that is found in shale deposits) happened in the United States and Canada because open access, sound government policy, stable property rights and the incentive offered by market pricing unleashed the skills of good engineers.

My guess is that the increase in oil prices we've already seen will be enough to bring consumption of petrol and diesel back to the 2000 level, and that other sectors like agriculture will be roughly stable.

Even before 2015, rapid learning by doing and technological progress kept costs stable in a high oil - price world while the rest of the industry struggled with cost inflation.

Although the U.S. economy is more stable and stronger than it was in the 1970s, when it was devastated by oil price shocks in 1973 and again in 1978 — 79, it could slip into recession in the same way it did coming off the Gulf War oil price shocks in 1990.

Houston & Dallas: As long as oil prices stay strong (oil was hovering near $ 44 a barrel at this writing), office, retail, and industrial warehouse demand should be stable.

Throughout 2016, the North Dakota market has been stable both on the commercial and residential side, but at mid-year, people were waiting for oil prices to go back up.