Sentences with phrase «as low commodity prices»

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TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower amid strong earnings from the tech sector and commodity prices eased on concerns as China moves to reform its industrial sector.

HOUSTON, Feb 5 - Oil prices settled lower on Monday as rising U.S. output, a weaker physical market and recent dollar strength added to the pressure from a widespread decline across equities and commodities markets.

Two weeks after Redford's remarks, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters lower government revenues follow from lower commodity prices like «night follows the day,» meaning a hard line of spending as he approaches his own coming budget.

Stock / commodity prices are dropping steadily, while bond returns in the US and even such «spendthrift» nations as France remain historically low.

The BOS indicator began to recover starting with the 2016 — 17 winter survey, as the complex adjustment of the Canadian economy to low commodity prices slowly progressed.

Lower commodity prices and the drop in energy - related business investment are acting as significant drags.

Fund managers cut their exposure to both commodities and emerging market equities to record lows this month, as oil and metals seem unable to shrug off price weakness and China recession fears mount, new research shows.

An economist who correctly predicted the fall in oil price this year has told CNBC that the U.S. government could look to bail out its energy sector in 2015 as the commodity's low price starts hitting the country's economy.

Although this has been leading to moderately bullish price action in select blue - chip stocks such as $ IBM, more explosive, high - momentum moves have been coming from various commodity - based ETFs (which have a low correlation to the direction of the overall stock market).

At the lowest tier in the supply chain, where a supplier will be most likely to use raw materials, those sources fluctuate as companies seek the lowest 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.

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.

Much of the record growth in corporate EPS has been driven by lower interest expense, lower commodity prices and share buybacks as top line growth has been sub-par.

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.

Cocoa has been the strongest commodity in 2018 as we rallied about 25 % from the low as prices may have gotten ahead of themselves, but I will keep a close eye on this 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).

It also blamed the effects of the commodities price crash in 2014, as well as rapid spending growth in emerging markets and low - income developing countries.

Cocoa prices are now trading below their 20 - day but still far above their 100 - day moving average as the trend is mixed as prices topped out on April 2nd around 2647 as the hot and dry weather conditions still do persist in West Africa, but the commodity markets, in general, are drifting lower due to the fact of the possible trade war with China.

Second, if commodity prices fall — as they have over the past year and a half — then consumers will have more money to spend on services, and the result will be lower goods price inflation but higher service price inflation.

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.

Commodity prices have been heading lower for more than four years, and according to data accessible via Bloomberg, commodities have been the worst performing asset class of 2015, with the most severe losses in cyclical commodities, such as oil and industrial metals.

In conclusion, anyone who views an unusually - large premium in the commodity futures price as bullish and an unusually - low (or negative) premium in the commodity futures price as bearish is looking at the market bass - ackwardly.

Mick Carew, a research analyst with Haywood Securities, hopes we have found the bottom of the commodity cycle but expects M&A activity to continue apace through the rest of this year and into 2016 as low metals prices force the hands of underfunded management teams.

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.

This ratio recently hit an all - time low as commodity prices fell while the stock market experienced a huge bull market.

Sure, commodity consumers benefit from lower prices as producers lose.

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.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

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).

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

Government is hopeful that this year economic activities will rebound with a projected real GDP growth of 5.4 percent — despite the International Monetary Fund, which is helping in management of the economy under a three - year Extended Credit Facility programme, lowering Ghana's economic growth in 2016 to 4.5 percent as a result of the continued fall in prices of commodities on the world market.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

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.

Furthermore one can go and make a broad generalization such as since real estate no longer requires the same quantity of construction material other industries sensitive to the price of those commodities should technically have a lower cost of doing business.

Canada's resource sector has been slammed as the price of crude has fallen from a high above $ 105 in June 2014 to below $ 40 over the past few months, just as other commodities are at or near multi-year lows.

As the trading volume on commodities is usually very low and thus price gaps often occur, simple volatility calculations based on the current Highs and Lows did not give adequate results.

The energy and materials sectors have been the sore spot for the high yield market, given the anxiety over credit quality, as current low prices in oil and commodities, along with a Fed increase in rates, may be a cause for concern for future earnings and the cost of capital.

Most value investors understand that leaving the question of price aside, businesses with enduring moats are more attractive as investments than commodity - type businesses which have no low - cost advantages.

Furthermore most DP (used in Rayon and other synthetic materials) is consumed in China which has their own high - cost mills and is looking into «dumping» by non Chinese manufacturers (perhaps as a way to support employment at home rather than enjoy lower commodity prices).

Post-Fed rate increase and halfway through the first month of 2016, Treasuries prices have increased, as some investors have moved toward safe haven assets in response to concerns over dangers in the U.S. economic recovery, which have been brought on by possible credit problems in energy and commodity companies due to the low price of oil.

Commodity prices are often driven by unique economic or market factors such as inflation, and frequently move up or down in relatively low correlation with stocks or bonds.

(1) The amount a price would be reduced to purchase a commodity of lesser grade; (2) sometimes used to refer to the price differences between futures of different delivery months, as in the phrase «July is trading at a discount to May,» indicating that the price of the July future is lower than that of May; (3) applied to cash grain prices that are below the futures price.

The reverse, where the price of a commodity for future delivery is lower than the spot price, or where a far future delivery price is lower than a nearer future delivery, is known as backwardation.

Even fundamentals such as the range of commodity prices are important, with many companies not considering a range of oil prices which covered the sustained lower levels seen since 2014 in the years preceding.

As the industry emerges from a period of low commodity prices, many professionals feel the industry must continue to invest in young talent who can help find solutions to these complex issues.

This would seem to indicate that prospective insureds can buy term insurance as a commodity with the lowest price being the indicator of the best policy among insurers of acceptable quality and financial strength.

Many binary options platforms provide access to stocks, indices, commodities and foreign exchange, as a high - low binary, in which customers open their positions in relation to what will be the price move within a certain period of time.

According to a 2017 Africa Report by Knight Frank, Tanzania is one of a small group of African nations to have maintained GDP growth in excess of 5 % in 2016, as it is an importer of commodities, and so benefitted from low oil prices as well as growth in private consumption and investment.

Limiting your pool of buyers in that way, limits competition and as we know, less competition for any commodity can lead to a lower price.