Sentences with phrase «by volatile oil prices»
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By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.
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It was a volatile week with oil prices climbing slowly on Monday and Tuesday, falling by over $ 2 a barrel on Wednesday and Thursday, and then rebounding to close down about 50 cents for the week on Friday.
TORONTO, January 29, 2015 - Despite a volatile fourth quarter marked by falling oil prices and geopolitical tensions, the latest survey from RBC Investor & Treasury Services shows that Canadian pension plans returned 11.9 per cent in 2014.
It reduces our dependence on volatile prices, set by whatever the most recent unrest in the Middle East is; for example, over the last month, we have seen a 10 % oil price spike on news of a restart of Egypt's unrest — and they're not even a major oil producer!
A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service noted that expanding access to Canadian oil resources will not protect against volatile crude oil prices, which are impacted by international events:
(15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.
(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.