Sentences with phrase «caused by commodity»

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The bond market sell - off since late last week stemmed from inflation worries caused by rising commodity prices and growing Treasury supply, as well as bets the Federal Reserve would further raise key borrowing costs, analysts said.

By the same logic, decreases in world commodity prices cause the Canadian dollar to depreciate.

It can cause companies to hold back on technology spending, marketing expenditures and other investments in their future in order to meet a prognostication affected by factors outside the company's control, such as fluctuations in commodity prices, stock market volatility and even the weather.

While the decision to leave the EU has caused notable market upheaval, global market declines were actually more extreme in the first few months of 2016 due to significant commodity price weakness, concerns regarding slowed economic growth in the U.S. and China, and monetary decisions by major central banks.

The decline in mining investment has been, in part, a reaction to declining production and profits, caused by falling global demand and lower commodity prices during 1998 and early 1999.

That s my best guess as it looks now but all asset classes seemingly are being manipulated from gold to bonds to currencies to stocks.Which one breaks away from the puppet strings that the Central Banks are holding on to.Fascinating that the dollar is surging causing gold and commodities money to be diverted to stocks.Is the dollar being purchased by our Fed?

The GS «Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Client Execution» (FICC) arm has seen performance fall by double digits sequentially and year - over-year, causing investors to ask whether Wall Street's preeminent trading shop has lost its edge.

The trade decisions facing Trump in the next several weeks encompass a range of U.S. complaints: the dumping in U.S. markets of Chinese products such as solar panels, the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, and economic damage caused by excess Chinese production in key commodities such as steel.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

However, the high correlation between risky assets experienced recently like during the recession of 2001 - 2003 and the global financial crisis in 2007 - 2009 has caused many investors to reconsider allocating by traditional asset classes defined by security type like stocks, bonds and real estate or commodities.

The fourth component is expectational variance, which is caused by unexpected inflation (supply - side shocks such as shortages) that results in sudden spikes in the price of a commodity.

Coincidentally with these price fluctuations, long - only commodity index funds became popular — by one estimate investment increased from $ 90 billion in 2006 to $ 200 billion at the end of 2007, while commodity prices increased 71 % — which raised concern as to whether these index funds caused the commodity bubble.

If commodity spot prices fall, the derivative contracts will gain in value, causing ETF shares to go up by the same proportion.

A succession of asset bubbles has formed in China, caused by a torrent of speculative money sloshing from stocks to bonds to commodities.

By late spring, all anybody could talk about was a second recession caused by these higher energy prices and chaos in Europe that was bound to spread to the U.S. Suddenly, however, commodity prices started to drop agaiBy late spring, all anybody could talk about was a second recession caused by these higher energy prices and chaos in Europe that was bound to spread to the U.S. Suddenly, however, commodity prices started to drop agaiby these higher energy prices and chaos in Europe that was bound to spread to the U.S. Suddenly, however, commodity prices started to drop again.

The ethnic, political and social tensions caused by centuries of colonial rule are being exploited by competing political forces seeking to gain or maintain access to the mostly exploitative profits resulting from a growing global appetite for African commodities.

Andy, I realized this week that while I've been talking with a lot of scientists over the past year about the signs that our global economic resources are running out, sharp price rises for commodities being one, that I've never heard it mentioned in the popular press that scarcity could be caused by using things up.

Critically, the greatest impact will likely be felt not in reduced volumes in the short term, but in the consequent pressure on commodity prices caused by lower - than - anticipated demand.

Forest loss is caused by many factors but, according to the latest analyses, international demand for commodities such as agricultural commodities, biofuels, wood products and minerals is the dominant driver of emissions in many countries.

«The slump in commodity prices caused by a glut in world supply of metals and a slowdown in China has created an environment where 80 % of FDs expect work from the mining sector to stagnate or contract in 2016 — the highest proportion of any area of work,» says Steer.