Sentences with phrase «despite higher commodity»

While the restructuring shift should protect profitability despite higher commodity costs, its primary purpose is to free up cash to invest in growth.

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i think this is why commodities, stocks and real estate also remain at recent highs despite 375 bps of tightening.

Despite a strong macroeconomic backdrop, the commodity - linked energy and materials equity sectors faltered in February and March after surging higher in January.

Pricing increased 3.7 percentage points, despite deflation in key commodities, due to significant pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency.

Redemptions from Brazil Equity Funds hit a 36 - week high despite more optimistic projections for economic growth, the central bank's easing bias and rising commodity prices.

Emerging markets in Latin America are benefiting from higher commodity prices, and despite some political tensions are proving to be an increasingly attractive destination for investor funds.

Despite high volumes, Australia's historically commodity - based markets have low margins, with high labour costs decreasing competitiveness and significant competition in saturated markets driving down prices.

Despite the more difficult global environment, with lower commodity prices and domestic power shortages, economic growth in 2015 was close to 4 percent, slightly higher than expected.

Can commodities still be useful for portfolio diversification, despite their recent poor aggregate return, high volatility and elevated return correlations with other asset classes?