Sentences with phrase «economies on commodity prices»

This is not to deny the continuing importance of the major industrial economies, or the potential feedback effects of slower growth in the major economies on commodity prices.

Not exact matches

Slowed growth in China has also had an impact on the commodity prices Canada's economy heavily relies on.

«We do not see an imminent turning point in commodity prices and thus forecast further negative repercussions on the Canadian economy next year,» Sebastien Lavoie, assistant chief economist at Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, said in an analysis of the Bank of Canada's latest policy statement.

The impact of disappointing commodity prices on the wider Perth economy has become clear this week with a key annual conference postponed due to low numbers.

«They helped cushion the blow on the economy from the commodity - price shock, which is of course better than reacting after the fact,» Poloz said Wednesday.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

Given the collapse in oil prices, and declines in some other key non-energy commodities, the economy is now operating on two distinct growth tracks: the resource track and the non-resource track.

Among other things, my track record on predicting rising oil prices demonstrated that the traditional laws of supply and demand were no longer working for one of the economy's most basic and essential commodities.

From nickel to soybean oil, plywood to sugar, global commodity prices have been on a steady decline as the world's economy has lost momentum.

Substantial changes in commodity prices present important policy issues, both for macroeconomic policies working on the demand side of the economy, and for structural policies that work on the supply side.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

On balance, the overall impact on the global economy of lower commodity prices is likely to be positivOn balance, the overall impact on the global economy of lower commodity prices is likely to be positivon the global economy of lower commodity prices is likely to be positive.

The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

Many of the EM economies were also very dependent on commodity exports, and the collapse of commodity prices will depress incomes in these economies.

The Chinese economy is slowing (worryingly, opinion differs as to how much), maintaining downward pressure on commodity prices, while Chinese stock prices continued to tumble in August in spite of huge intervention by the authorities.

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

Sharply lower commodity prices are now offering Canada an opportunity to push the reset button on an economy that's become distorted by an overdependence on resource markets.

The distribution of these real income gains across the economy depends, crucially, on how much the exchange rate appreciates in response to the positive shock to world commodity prices (RBA 2005).

Commodity prices were on fire on Thursday morning, still soaring after comments by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that the weak dollar was good for the U.S. economy.

Half of the country's 2014 exports were raw products like oil, iron ore, soybean and corn, so the economy has been vulnerable to commodity price changes on those products.

Alberta's economy is over-dependent on a single commodity, at a single price and in a single market.

I have been nibbling on this stock for the past few months as it too had a difficult 2015 with falling commodity prices hurting ethanol sales, along with a strong dollar and weakened overseas economies reducing demand for ADM products.

Looking forward, expansion in production capacity for some resource commodities, stronger commodity prices and the improvement in the global economy should provide a further boost to export earnings over the coming year (see section on commodity prices and the terms of trade).

The main contributors remain the same: declining oil and commodity prices, renewed concerns over the pace of expansion in China, and the impact of rising interest rates and a strong dollar on the U.S. economy.

Chinese growth continues to slow, keeping pressure on commodity prices and sending deflationary impulses throughout the global economy.

Last year, when load - shedding reached its peak over a three - year period, the economy recorded its lowest growth in 15 years: expanding by 3.9 percent mainly, on due to a slump in commodities prices and energy supply deficit, which affected the manufacturing, industries and services sectors... the biggest contributors to the country's GDP.

The Ghanaian economy is built largely on the back of commodity exports, which saw a boom through 2011, but has tracked the fall in commodity prices.

Government is hopeful that this year economic activities will rebound with a projected real GDP growth of 5.4 percent — despite the International Monetary Fund, which is helping in management of the economy under a three - year Extended Credit Facility programme, lowering Ghana's economic growth in 2016 to 4.5 percent as a result of the continued fall in prices of commodities on the world market.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

As Latin America comes down from a decade of growth based on exporting commodities at high world prices, it faces the next challenge: transitioning to a higher - productivity economy.

Russian sanctions over Ukraine have put pressure on the economy, while elections in Brazil and lower commodity prices have hurt that country.

His predictions centre on the fact that as a net - exporter of oil, Canada's economy has been hit hard by falling commodity prices.

Often used to gauge potential inflationary pressure on the economy, commodities are susceptible to sudden price movements that may present trading opportunities.

Chinese growth continues to slow, keeping pressure on commodity prices and sending deflationary impulses throughout the global economy.

As the prices of commodities have such broad - reaching effects on the economy, an investor can take advantage of changes in commodity prices in several ways.

Further, commodities have been increasingly influenced by Chinese trading and consumption, which means that their prices could similarly depend on the country's rebounding economy and could move lower before going higher.

In many cases, their economies can be heavily dependent on the prices for commodities exports.

As I mentioned on another answer, I think buying gold or other commodity instruments is a poor choice here because the Australian economy and the AUD is so tied to those prices already.

On the one hand, the return on investment is much different than with stocks or bonds and the fluctuation of commodity prices can be affected by things like supply and demand, inflation, and the condition of the economy as a wholOn the one hand, the return on investment is much different than with stocks or bonds and the fluctuation of commodity prices can be affected by things like supply and demand, inflation, and the condition of the economy as a wholon investment is much different than with stocks or bonds and the fluctuation of commodity prices can be affected by things like supply and demand, inflation, and the condition of the economy as a whole.

Consequently, as it relates to valuation, companies in the materials sector are often dependent on the price movement of a macro variable of either the price of the underlying commodity, or the health of the underlying economy.

«What the commodity markets are telling us is that we're living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices....

And on all other timescales, the price of energy commodities is driven by many factors, such as speculation about the political situation in oil producing economies.