Sentences with phrase «driven by the high prices»

Net sales per hectoliter increased 11.1 percent, driven by higher pricing, favorable sales mix changes and foreign currency movements.

VPG increased 8 percent to $ 3,211 in the second quarter of 2013 from $ 2,968 in the second quarter of 2012, driven by higher pricing and improved closing efficiency.

VPG increased 11 percent to $ 3,266 in the first quarter of 2013 from $ 2,942 in the first quarter of 2012, driven by higher pricing and improved closing efficiency.

Overall exports of Australian wine rose 10 % to AUS$ 2.17 billion, much of this driven by higher priced bottled wines, according to Wine Australia CEO Andreas Clark.

Bay Area home sales fell 9.3 % from July of last year, a decline driven by high prices and few homes for sale, CoreLogic DataQuick said.

Not exact matches

The price of oil has risen to its highest since late 2014 this month, driven by concern over the potential for disruption to Iranian crude flows, but analysts say the degree of uncertainty hanging over the deal means the market is extremely sensitive to any developments.

«Prices are being driven up by tight supply due to high production outages in Venezuela plus the...

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.

The revenue growth was driven by favorable price and high - teens growth in electronics, which offset the impact of order choppiness.

Oil prices have risen this month to their highest since late 2014, driven by concern over potential disruptions to Iranian crude flows.

«Hence, the fear of deflation driven by an acute oil price collapse receded, allowing bond yields to move higher,» he added.

For instance, an initiative known as «should - cost» has effectively driven down the high price of many programs by requiring managers to determine what a given program or piece of a program should cost and then set targets for fitting the program into its cost paradigm.

Stronger sales were driven by slightly softer prices, especially at the high end, as sellers became more realistic about prices.

LONDON, May 1 - BP's profits surged in the first three months of the year to their highest since mid-2014, driven by a recovery in oil and gas prices and rapid growth in production.

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.

happy Facebook users that aren't bummed by the news) «could drive higher ad prices to counterbalance.»

One map featured on a website produced by AB InBev promoting the deal shows exactly why the US - Belgian giant wanted the deal to happen, why SABMiller was able to drive the price higher, and just how much of the world's beer market the merged company will control.

Tesla's «Master Plan» — a blog post laid out by Musk in August 2006 — was to enter the auto industry at high - end prices, then drive down - market as fast as possible with increasingly higher volumes.

According to Joe Oliver, federal spending tripled between 1969 and 1979, driven by «the ideology of the man at the wheel and on the reckless assumption that commodity prices would remain high».

He points out that all of Bendigo's earnings growth has been driven by «the effect of higher property prices on the valuation of its Homesafe portfolio».

Adjusted EBITDA growth was driven by gains from cost savings initiatives and favorable pricing net of higher local input costs that were partially offset by unfavorable volume / mix.

Pricing increased 2.1 percentage points, primarily driven by pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency in Latin APricing increased 2.1 percentage points, primarily driven by pricing to offset higher input costs in local currency in Latin Apricing to offset higher input costs in local currency in Latin America.

That day, traders piled into the stock, driving its price 22 % higher on volume spike that was nearly 500 % greater than average (highlighted by the pink ellipse on the chart below).

The higher gas prices in Washington are driven by the state's gas tax, which is 49 cents per gallon.

New York's gas prices are in large part driven by its high taxes — the gas tax rose to over 43 cents per gallon in 2017.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Pricing increased 5.7 percentage points, primarily driven by actions to offset higher input costs in local currency.

A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

Investors are responding to them in a rational, measured way by moving out of growth and momentum - driven names and into more value - priced, high quality stocks.

Investors had to close them out by buying them back, which drove VIX prices even higher.

If the Dragon doesn't breathe fire into markets, it may be a shot of liquidity injected by policy easing that could drive stock prices higher.

Driven by mining sector investments and high commodity prices, GDP grew by 3.4 % last year.

Following declines over the past three quarters, driven by significant price falls, expenditure on imports of goods and services rose by 6 per cent in the September quarter, to be 3 1/2 per cent higher than a year ago.

These price increases have been driven by low stocks and expanding global industrial production, and have taken base metals prices close to 15 - year highs.

By tracking daily purchase prices and movement of the GDX, the algorithm provides a reliable, data - driven benchmark of any diamond's perfect price point, creating a high level of transparency to insure fairness on all ends.

Despite lower production levels, adjusted net earnings, operating cash flow, and free cash flow all increased compared to the prior - year period, primarily driven by higher gold prices.

While we don't believe we're in bubble territory, valuations for many sectors are high — with P / E ratios driven more by price expansion (the «P») than by the more meaningful «E» of earnings.

Segment Results North America VPG increased 5.3 percent to $ 3,383 in the second quarter of 2014 from $ 3,211 in the second quarter of 2013, driven mainly by higher pricing.

Net debt excluding zinc metal prepay and perpetual securities of EUR 1.351 billion at the end of Q1 2018, an increase of EUR 249 million on 31 December 2017 driven predominantly by working capital outflow mainly due to higher commodity prices and amortisation of prepays.

Substantially improved Mining underlying EBITDA of EUR 16 million, up EUR 11 million year - on - year, driven by higher commodity prices and the successful restart of the Middle Tennessee mines, partially offset by the EUR 8 million negative EBITDA contribution from the restart of the Myra Falls mine

Segment Results North America VPG increased 5 percent to $ 3,255 in the fourth quarter of 2014 from $ 3,103 in the fourth quarter of 2013, driven mainly by an increase in the average number of points purchased per contract and higher pricing.

Arguing that OPEC «has not failed at all» in its attempt to drive oil prices up, Oreshkin said that the price of oil is now much higher than it was this time last year, before the cartel and 11 non-OPEC producers led by Russia struck the initial output cut deal.

VPG increased 14 percent to $ 2,968 in the second quarter of 2012 from $ 2,607 in the second quarter of 2011, driven by higher closing efficiency and pricing.

And the increased business investment of 2017 seems to have been largely driven by higher oil prices, which revived the fracking trade after a pause.

Segment Results North America VPG increased 6.9 percent to $ 3,477 in the third quarter of 2014 from $ 3,252 in the third quarter of 2013, driven mainly by an increase in the average number of points purchased per contract, higher pricing and a modest improvement in closing efficiency.

That is still too high for many promotions, but suggests recognition by Apple that lower price points will be critical to driving up user numbers even among brand loyalists.

This was particularly driven by mining companies, whose profits almost doubled from the December half of 2003, benefiting from higher commodity prices and increased production.

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 4.3 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to October, driven by rises in the prices of rural goods and base metals, to be 1.7 per cent higher than a year ago (Graph 48).

The prospect of mass adoption by Wall Street is driving the price higher.

Both companies trade at high price - to - earnings ratios, although those multiples are driven by slightly different reasons.