Sentences with phrase «by energy price»

In Atlantic Canada, the Newfoundland and Labrador economy was hit hard in 2016 by energy price declines, with the provincial government expecting the province to contract in real terms in 2017.
In terms of data, euro zone inflation jumped to 1.9 percent in April from 1.5 percent in March driven by energy prices, flash data showed Friday.
The decrease was mainly influenced by energy prices.
Euro zone inflation jumped to 1.9 percent in April from 1.5 percent in March driven essentially by energy prices, flash data showed Friday.
Euro zone inflation jumped to 1.9 percent in April from 1.5 percent in March driven by energy prices, flash data showed Friday.
Headline inflation has been heavily influenced by energy prices since mid-2014.
Low Exposure to Energy — High Yield bonds continue to be heavily influenced by energy prices.
Today, however, particularly in the US, those choices are cushioned by energy prices that don't even reflect what it costs to produce the energy (say «ethanol subsidies» three times), no carbon taxes, and no tax on oil to represent its real or even imagined threats to national security.
For that matter, many of the WSJ advertisers are not in industries directly affected by energy prices, and some are in industries that are sensitive to climate change.

Not exact matches

Our energy sector has been hurt partly by low natural gas prices and the discount placed on Canadian oil compared to world benchmarks, but gas and oil prices have generally been flat or on the rise.
But unlike Calgary - based rival Cenovus Energy Inc., which temporarily throttled back oilsands output in the first quarter because of low prices, Husky says it is cutting output because it can make more money by buying «distressed» barrels from other producers.
The Bank of Canada thinks inflation is being influenced by weaker energy costs and an odd slowing in the upward trajectory of automobile prices.
In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.
As the nickel price continues its upward trajectory driven by the clean energy revolution for power storage and the rise of the electric vehicles, Poseidon remains poised to become a producer with its existing class 1 high grade nickel sulphide mine.
That's difficult because the consumer price basket is influenced by volatile items such as energy and food.
The six secondary sources used by OPEC are the International Energy Agency, oil - pricing agencies Platts and Argus, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), consultancy Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
A separate index by the Bank of Japan that strips away the effect of energy costs also showed inflation slowing, suggesting that weak consumption and falling import costs are discouraging firms from raising prices for a broad range of goods.
He was the rare apparatchik whose name wasn't only known but reviled by members of the public, thanks to his involvement in crafting the National Energy Program, imposing price caps and taxes on oil.
One of his biggest deals — the $ 41 billion buyout of XTO Energy in 2009 — was called by Tillerson himself ill - timed because it was done before natural gas prices bottomed out.
He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.
In this case, oil prices would rise above US$ 100 / bbl again and the C$ would be above parity by the end of 2012 with the TSX energy, materials, and industrial sectors moving higher.
Perth - based Paladin Energy has been hit by the weak uranium price, reporting a $ 338 million net loss for the full year.
To determine the economic health of the 30 OECD countries, Canadian Business ranked them by 12 categories: demographics, GDP, trade, prices, energy, life quality, government finance, labour, technology, education, environment and military spending.
Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.
The rise in bond yields, which investors fear could hurt equities, has been partly fuelled by the spike in crude oil prices, which on Tuesday crossed $ 75, boosting energy shares.
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.
OPEC wants to keep oil prices relatively higher than they have been in recent years, having lost $ 76 billion in 2016 due to cheap oil caused by rising American and Iranian oil production, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Looking ahead to 2016, the economy's fate will largely be driven by the trajectory for energy prices.
As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.
Although much of the recent drop in oil prices has been due to the prospect of higher exports from Iran in the coming months (the International Energy Agency forecasts an extra 300,000 barrels a day by the end of March), the dumping of stored oil is essentially a short - term factor, and its influence on crude prices should logically pass quite quickly.
Using data from the latest reports by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, Moody's, Forbes, and CNBC, we've analyzed tax data, real estate prices, and labor and energy costs to identify the most expensive cities in America to start a business.
The price growth is driven primarily by companies in the energy and technology industries, according to Reis.
First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).
The next few weeks will give investors an insight into whether the production cuts by OPEC and non-OPEC will be fully implemented and will be a crucial period for prices of the commodity, according to a new monthly report by the IEA (International Energy Agency).
Oil prices will be in the $ 60 range by the end of the year, says Pavel Molchanov, senior vice president and energy analyst at Raymond James.
Prices for crude oil, the world economy's most essential commodity, will need until 2020 to recover from the price war unleashed last year by Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the global energy mEnergy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the global energy menergy market.
While higher coal - energy prices are expected to drive innovation in the cleantech sector, many small businesses and consumers will likely be hurt by the higher energy bills in the short term, says Blumberg.
The energy sector was certainly hard hit by the sharp drop in oil prices.
However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.
Although U.S. crude oil inventories are at «historically high levels» for this time of year, according to the Energy Information Adminstration's Weekly Petroleum Status report, Molchanov predicts inventories will trend lower by the middle of the year as prices recover.
Prices were pulled down by a report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday showing U.S. crude inventories jumped by 6.2 million barrels to 435.96 million barrels in the week to April 27, marking a 2018 high.
With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX: SU), known for its huge presence in Alberta's oilsands, is reducing its workforce by 1,000 and cutting $ 1 billion from its capital budget as the company grapples with plummeting crude prices.
At the same time, the bloom came off of clean - tech, generally, with the notorious bankruptcy of Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar energy modules, and a broader shakeout of solar panel producers caused by plummeting prices and competition from China.
Richard Dixon, executive director of the Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment, doesn't agree with de Bever's ominous price prediction, but he welcomes the interest in innovation by institutional investors.
As the headquarters city of choice for the energy industry, Calgary has been hit hard by the slumping price of oil.
Inflation has been boosted by the stabilization of energy prices, consecutive years of 2 % (and above) real gross domestic product (GDP) growth and the continued rise of wage inflation.
Canadian energy company shares are trading at levels not seen since the depths of the 2008 crisis, levels that can only be justified if the global economy falls into another recession and oil prices drop by half.
Total CPI inflation remains near the bottom of the Bank's target range as the disinflationary effects of economic slack and low consumer energy prices are only partially offset by the inflationary impact of the lower Canadian dollar on the prices of imported goods.
In a recently released study, Getting Energy Prices Right: From Principle to Practice, the IMF calculates what it considers to be the appropriate level of fuel taxes (a carbon tax by any other name) for 156 different countries.
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