Sentences with phrase «while high oil prices»

Cars Down, Bikes Up While high oil prices and an economic recession are hitting carmakers hard, bicycle makers are selling more than ever.

The introduction of the new tax system has complicated the inflation outlook, while higher oil prices and the lower exchange rate have tended to push up inflation expectations.

Not exact matches

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher as energy stocks advanced while oil prices hit a 16 - month high and traders took in a mixed batch of U.S. earnings.

While summer is meant to be the season where oil prices hit their annual highs, the price of crude oil has plunged recently.

The NOCs are being approached by lawyers and investment bankers not just from Calgary but from Houston and Melbourne too, seeking patient capital for long - timeline projects while equity prices for energy companies have been steadily sinking on stock markets despite the high price of oil.

Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose to $ 70.37 on Monday, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude reached $ 64.89 on Tuesday, both hitting more than three - year highs.

Oil prices eased from recent highs with Brent crude futures off 94 cents at $ 73.70 a barrel, while U.S. crude lost 67 cents to $ 67.43.

All the while, the industry thrived financially under a combination of high oil prices, low natural gas prices (a major input cost), recession - induced relief from cost inflation and a reduced cost of capital as majors and foreign national oil companies gobbled up wobbly juniors.

However, the Canadian dollar is expected to see minimal benefit from higher oil prices: a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate hike is likely in the first half of 2017, which would bolster the U.S. dollar, while the Bank of Canada is expected to hold steady on rates.

While the re-balancing of global oil markets is progressing, record - high crude and gasoline inventories continue to put downward pressure on prices.

«Of the other BRICS, commodity - driven countries like Russia and Brazil did not diversify their economies fast enough while oil prices rode high,» observes Lau.

Oil prices inched higher with Brent crude futures up 3 cents to $ 73.38 a barrel, while U.S. crude added 10 cent to $ 68.04.

While Basic Energy Service reemerged from bankruptcy at the end of last year with a more sustainable cost structure and improved balance sheet, it needs higher oil prices to thrive, because those prices will drive customer demand for its services.

Plunging oil prices were a major market and economic shock in 2015 and early 2016, causing broad market volatility while adding to the pain in emerging market (EM) and high yield assets.

For a good while, we've observed interest rates and oil prices moving higher, and investors have remained fairly oblivious.

While crude oil prices might never get back to their past highs, an upward turn could transform Transocean (NYSE: RIG), Dawson Geophysical (NASDAQ: DWSN), and Encana (NYSE: ECA) into profit - friendly investments to buy on sale.

At the same time, the U.S. 10 - year Treasury bond yield dipped from 2.43 % to 2.34 % week - over-week, while WTI oil prices jumped to a 2 1/2 - year high near $ 56.

Depressed earnings at oil companies should benefit from a rebound in crude oil prices, while slightly higher interest rates can have a positive impact on bank earnings.

Incidentally, while poking around at market oil prices, I noticed that while Western Canadian Select (WCS), which is dilbit, does sell at a substantial discount from WTI, upgraded dilbit is selling for a much higher price.

While this is still below 2014 levels, higher oil prices, improved European growth and some evidence of stabilizing inflation in Europe appear to have left investors less concerned about the prospect of deflation.

COVER STORY: INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT SUSTAINS GROWTH By Gordon Platt High oil prices are keeping government spending flowing strongly into major projects, while debt - laden Dubai has taken a turn for the better.

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Nevertheless, US benchmarks were less volatile, as US shale oil production continued to increase in response to higher global prices, while US oil exports reached record levels.

While the market continues to communicate concern over rising levels of shale production, this bullish inventory data coupled with a slightly softer USD profile, it's easy to see why oil prices are finding fresh session highs going into the NY close.

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Crude oil futures in the June contract settled last Friday in New York at 67.33 a barrel while currently trading at 68.35 up about a $ 1 for the trading week hitting a 3 1/2 year high & in yesterdays trade prices went up as high as 69.55 before profit - taking ensued.

While oil fundamentals have softened, speculators maintain a strong belief in higher prices.

So while low and negative interest rates across the globe has inspired flows into stocks, emerging market bonds and corporate credit in search of higher yields, keep in mind the high correlations of these assets to oil prices and the advantages of holding actual diversifiers in your portfolio to smooth the ride.

Higher oil prices are driving an incredible economic boom in Texas, with the unemployment rate dropping rapidly while wages soar

While the inflation impact from higher oil prices and commodity prices in general, continue to pump up inflation expectation and push bond yields higher, keep in mind that much of the recent spike in Yields is about as much about supply as it is about inflation.

At 9:10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, oil prices traded higher with U.S. crude hovering around $ 48.35, while Brent stood around $ 50.52 per barrel.

Oil companies need higher prices, a lot higher, and they need to be sure that ANWR will be open long enough at a high enough price to make it worth their while.

While the measure is unlikely to make it through the divided Congress to become law, Democrats hope to score politically with voters frustrated by a confluence of deep budget cuts in Washington, sky - high prices at the gas pumps, and staggering profits on the oil giants» bottom lines.

And while U.S. oil dependence remains high, fuel prices are climbing.

If oil prices remain high and governments make progress on their emissions goals, there's a possibility that the world has already hit peak oil, and that the next few years will see its use plateau for a while before dropping again.

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

So, while priced higher compared to most flax oil products, the quality is very high.

As high oil prices became a thing of the past, Holden decided to drop the 2.85 - six and 4.2 - litre V8, [55] while the 1.9 - litre four - cylinder was limited to New Zealand.

While we have no idea where oil prices will settle in the short run, it remains our view that oil prices can not stay down at today's depressed prices for too long, largely due to what we believe to be the relatively modest current level of excess capacity, our expectations of continued growth in demand over time, and the high marginal costs for finding and developing new sources of supply.

The sukuk market demonstrated resilience despite the decline in oil price and global uncertainty; the Dow Jones Sukuk Index, which tracks USD - denominated, investment - grade sukuk, rose 1.24 % in 2015, while the Dow Jones Sukuk High Quality Investment Grade Total Return Index gained 1.00 % in the same period.

Another area is energy: higher oil prices usually mean higher profits across the sector, while declining prices could mean declining profits.

So while a further move higher in oil prices is possible and could boost the loonie in the near term, we also can't rule out the potential for renewed weakness in the Canadian dollar given the weight of these persistent challenges.

Albertans in particular have been hit the hardest with commodities, oil and gas stocks collapsing to 2008 financial crisis levels, real estate prices stagnating while the rest of the country tests new all - time highs, and now two impending tax increases thanks to those voting for change in the provincial and federal elections.

While Grizzly Salmon Oil is high quality, many customers are concerned with price increases and reduced availability of their products.

After all, while growing food near to where it is consumed may make sense from an ecological perspective, we can't ignore the sky - high cost of real estate in New York, combined with the ridiculously low price of oil.

If I produced corn ethanol, and the price of oil went up, I'd charge a lot more for my ethanol to maximize profitability while my competitor's prices were high, which, in a nutshell is why ethanol does little to protect consumers from oil price spikes.

While there are significant differences in projected natural gas prices across baselines, with persistently lower prices in the High Oil and Gas Resource case, the Clean Power plan itself does not significantly move natural gas prices with the exception of an initial impact expected during the first 2 - 3 years after the start of implementation.

While OPEC countries have done their best to keep oil prices high by cutting back on production, America's energy wealth and free markets have frustrated these efforts.

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