Sentences with phrase «drives commodity prices»

What most people assume drives commodity prices.

Emerging market growth drives commodity prices but this will change as these economies develop.

If China rebounds to its former tigerish growth rates, it could drive commodity prices back up.

In 2010, droughts in Russia, Ukraine, China and Argentina and torrential storms in Canada, Australia and Brazil — all major wheat and grain producers — considerably diminished global crops, driving commodity prices up.

What forces drive commodity prices?

Not exact matches

The streamers thus have their pick of low - cost, high - grade projects and can drive a hard bargain, setting themselves up for strong earnings growth if and when commodity prices rise.

That puts pressure on commodity prices and drives up inflation.

What we didn't anticipate was that other factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.

The point of this — according to the federal prosecutors, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who are not happy with Sarao — is that by placing all these fake sell orders, Sarao would artificially drive down the price of the E-mini futures.

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».

Finally, much of the recent drop in inflation expectations is being driven by lower commodity prices, particularly oil.

Then when the financial crisis hit, investors yanked US$ 75 billion out of such funds, which Greenberger argues was the driving force behind the collapse in commodity prices in 2008.

The terms of trade boom was driven by very large increases in the prices of some of Australia's commodity exports.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.

For most countries individually, it is plausible to argue that the rise in a wide range of commodity prices is exogenous — even if it is driven by global demand, our own contribution to that demand is small.

United States Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased 32.9 percent versus the year - ago period to $ 1.5 billion, driven by gains from cost savings initiatives and favorable pricing net of commodity costs that were partially offset by volume declines in ready - to - drink beverages and frozen nutritional meals.

Moreover, as inflation is less demand driven and the result of external factors (Currency, commodity prices), raising interest rates risks plunging the economy into a recession.

Further mortgage writedowns, defaults and increased credit difficulties remain a concern, as does commodity price weakness (not necessarily immediate, but soon enough) and the prospect of earnings risk and layoffs driven by cost reductions.

«Of the other BRICS, commodity - driven countries like Russia and Brazil did not diversify their economies fast enough while oil prices rode high,» observes Lau.

Much of the record growth in corporate EPS has been driven by lower interest expense, lower commodity prices and share buybacks as top line growth has been sub-par.

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.

That is driving the dollar higher, which in turn weakens commodities prices.

While a drilling delay helped drive the decision to slow down, Pioneer said it could have reaccelerated but decided against doing so «in light of the current commodity price environment.»

The positive incentives to look beyond commodity - driven price softness are (as elaborated in a client presentation earlier this year):

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

Asian stocks reached for new all - time highs on Monday, as the US dollar continued to weaken, boosting both commodity prices and US export - driven industries.

The prices of other resource commodities increased on average by 5.8 per cent over the three months to April, driven by increases in the prices of alumina, coal and iron ore.

Cheap commodity prices mean improved margins for GT, more people driving, and more needing replacement tires.

While some tell us that inflationary pressures are temporary and primarily due to bottlenecks in the energy sector, we have long argued that inflation in all commodity prices is not a temporary supply issue, but driven by the global imbalances.

For the full year, Brooks expects an overall improving global growth story to be the driving force behind commodity price appreciation.

That drove up prices for most - traded commodities — and drove up demand for derivatives that are used to hedge against high prices.

Lower oil prices are also driving cost deflation across the broader commodity complex,» Goldman strategists led by Christian Mueller - Glissmann said in a research note.

Tariffs, sanctions, and Middle East tensions have driven recent commodity headlines and have had significant impacts on steel, aluminum, soybean, and oil prices and performance.

The main reason, however, is that the difference between the futures price and the spot price is driven by arbitrage and, in all commodity markets except the gold market, the extent to which current production is able to satisfy current demand (in the gold market there can never be a supply shortage because almost all of the gold mined in world history is still available to meet current demand).

We are driven to provide traders with low - cost pricing across all FX, CFDs and Commodities with the security of financial regulation and, industry leading * customer support.

Natural - gas prices dropped 11 %, in the biggest plunge in more than six years, as traders locked in profits from the commodity's weather - driven rally.

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

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).

«It appears that four inter-linked phenomena are driving a negative feedback loop in the global economy and across financial markets,» the analysts write, citing the resilient US dollar, lower commodities prices, weaker trade and capital flows, and declining emerging market growth.

The creation of trillions in paper money, without the corresponding economic growth, has suppressed the capacity of speculators to drive up the price of gold and other commodities.

«It seems reasonable to assume that another year of extreme moves in US dollar (higher) and oil / commodity prices (lower) would likely continue to drive this negative feedback loop and make it very difficult for policy makers in emerging markets and developing markets to fight disinflationary forces and intercept downside risks,» the analysts add.

Group turnover for H1 rose 7 % to NZ $ 10bn due to commodity prices and higher volume sales (+5 % y / y), driven by strong demand for branded consumer products and ingredients (the latter turned over NZ $ 8bn in H1, +10 %).

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.

We were aware going in that it's a commodity price driven business and whilst we are not happy that things have gone against them in the shorter term it doesn't dissuade us from the investment.»

Meanwhile, Mars Ice Cream is concerned about commodity prices and plans to continue watching international demand for dairy inputs that carry potential to drive up costs.

ONE of the nation's largest producers of Wagyu - infused beef is undergoing a radical restructure, driven by elevated commodity prices, changing market forces, and a belief some Wagyu beef production systems in Australia are unsustainable.

Cargill helps food & beverage manufacturers drive growth through new product innovation, increasing supply chain efficiency, optimizing product formulation and managing commodity price risk.

«There has been some speculation that the recent increase in European butter prices may have been driven by expectations that Russia could be looking for some additional butter,» Bailey says in a weekly commodity report on the market.