Sentences with phrase «when oil prices dropped»

Even with the Alberta economy taking a hit in late 2014 when oil prices dropped, commercial and retail investments continue to perform well.

Then it all seemed to go away when oil prices dropped, but this is only a temporary respite, and the auto industry should use it to retool, something I wrote about yesterday: Retooling the Auto Industry for a Smaller (Yet Profitable) Future.

An important difference from other periods when oil prices dropped is the supply / demand circumstances.

It ended disastrously because his government allowed Big Oil to make the government the scapegoat when oil prices dropped in response to global market forces.

«There are scalebacks when oil price drops like that,» says Feehely.

When oil prices drop and natural resource royalties are low, our artificially low tax rates are unrealistic if we want to sustain the public services that contribute to the high quality of life we enjoy in Alberta.

Not exact matches

U.S. stocks experienced sharp drops in August 2015, when China devalued its currency; in January 2016, as oil prices dropped; in June of 2016, after the «Brexit» vote; and in the run — up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Shares of energy companies are set to book their steepest monthly drop in August since the end of 2015, when the oil price crash was in full swing.

In July, oil prices dropped nearly 20 %, compared to early June, after Canadian supply returned when wildfires were extinguished and production in Nigeria recovered after unrest was quelled.

The first concern is dispelled when comparing the timing of the recent oil price drop to the increase in the firm's profits.

After dropping ConocoPhillips, Berkshire built up a large position in Exxon Mobil at a time when crude oil prices were near their highs in 2013.

Crude - oil prices have dropped considerably since their peak in 2008, when prices briefly touched $ 147 a barrel.

For example, Overseas Shipholding Group (equity ticker OSG) is a deeply junk rated oil tanker company that has seen its bonds drop from trading around par (par means 100 cents on the dollar when comparing the market price to the face amount of the bonds) to distressed levels between 60 and 70 cents on the dollar.

The new contracts will come when oil is roughly half that price, a drop in value that could reduce pipeline operating revenue by millions of dollars a day and ruin the pipeline's business strategy.

As we saw starting in 2014, when the international price of oil dropped, the much - lauded Alberta Advantage of using unreliable resource revenues to subsidize short - sighted tax cuts quickly became the Alberta Disadvantage.

Many indie gas stations buy gas from name - brand oil companies, and they're often the first to slash prices when crude oil rates drop, NPR reported.

When we chose oil as the subject of this month's cover story, we had no idea how fast and dramatic the drop in oil prices would be...

Retail gasoline prices dropped to low levels in the first quarter of 2016, when crude oil prices were bottoming, and that created a surge in demand that was not repeated in 2017.

Gas prices also drop when crude oil prices drop - the flip side of that regulation.

Curiously, the hike in the price of kerosene came at a time when the price of crude oil had dropped to record low, with the price of petroleum products, such as kerosene, fuel and diesel, among others, dropping significantly in a number of countries, like the United States.

Nigeria has set a high budget at a period when the price of oil, which is the backbone of the nation's economy, has dropped in depressing dimension.

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The first, Awilco Drilling, was a darling of the value investing community until 2 years ago when oil prices tanked and the stock cratered, dropping almost 90 %.

Especially when corporate bond markets are a mess, municipal bonds are suffering under the weight of Puerto Rico's problem, Europe's continued woes, instability in the Middle East, a stalled out stock market and oil prices drop due to oversupply.

But this drop means there's room for future appreciation and realtors expect prices to pick up in this southwest community when oil prices eventually start to recover.

We all expected massive price drops when oil prices plummeted, but, in the end, Calgary real estate didn't suffer all that much.

Global economy will not pay ever rising prices for oil and just shut down when the final drop has been used.

«The general consensus is the office market is in recovery mode,» Roberts says, noting that one optimistic sign is energy companies are signing up for longer - term deals, when short - term commitments have been the norm since 2014, when the price of oil briefly dropped to $ 26 per barrel from a peak of $ 107.

When the price of oil plunged from a peak of $ 107 per barrel in June 2014 to a 12 - year low of $ 26 per barrel in February 2016, prices at the pump began dropping, briefly reaching a low of $ 2.05 nationwide in January 2017...

When the ball dropped to announce the arrival of 2015, the price of oil did a spot - on impression and dropped 51 % (to $ 53.45).