Sentences with phrase «by a commodity collapse»

The stock sold off into 2016, buffeted by a commodity collapse that threatened to trigger a recession.

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He was amazed by the high prices Starbucks was charging for a commodity that was once Guatemala's top export but had collapsed in value in the 1980s as cheap beans from countries like Vietnam flooded the market.

St - Arnaud and his colleagues concluded that U.S. exporters are paying the price for being exposed to markets that were devastated by the collapse of commodity prices — places such as Colombia, Brazil and (especially) Canada.

Noble Group, once Asia's largest commodities trader, was hit hard by a commodity price collapse.

The move comes as the Hong Kong - based trader aims to rebuild investor confidence after a brutal commodities downturn coincided with a questioning of its accounts in early 2015 by Iceberg Research, sparking a collapse in its share price and ratings credit agency downgrades.

Canada's weaknesses as a trading nation were exposed; first by the weak recovery in the U.S., and then by the collapse of commodity prices starting in 2014.

In July, when the Bank of Canada cut its policy to its current setting of 0.5 %, policy makers expressed concern over weak non-energy exports and a deep contraction in business investment brought on by the collapse of commodity prices.

After his original career as a geologist was cut short by the last collapse in commodity prices, Tom entered journalism as the traditional refuge of the otherwise unemployable.

The agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which sued Mr. Corzine in 2013 over MF Global's collapse and misuse of $ 1 billion in customer money, could announce a deal by the end of this year if the agency's three commissioners approve it.

In many advanced economies, headline inflation has been pushed lower by the sudden collapse in commodity prices — a temporary effect — but core inflation rates have remained stable.

There is a mood of certainty, even historic inevitability, about this because of the recent collapse of socialism.13 Another is described by the term, «McDonaldization,» a word taken from the fast food industry in USA, to indicate a process of standardizing a particular commodity throughout the world.

The Ministry of Finance has given a strong assurance that Ghana's banking sector will remain strong and effective despite claims of imminent collapse due to the huge debt owed them by Finatrade, a commodities company.

«The latter included China's stock market collapse and its global repercussions and effects on commodity prices; the Aug. 11 devaluation of the renminbi; the downgrade of Brazilian debt to junk status by Standard and Poor's on Sept. 9; and the major uncertainties surrounding the possible increase of the U.S. Federal Reserve funds rate.

The Australian dollar could face a benign collapse to US66 cents by the end of next year amid falling commodity prices, declining mining investment and Financial Astrological predictions by Mahendra Sharma.

By «limiting bets on more volatile assets like stocks and commodities and using leverage to load up on safer assets like government bonds,» risk - parity funds attempt to minimize risk of collapse of any one market, the article explains.