Sentences with phrase «economies than commodities»

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Since that report came out, we can count another upside to the «China syndrome»: Canada weathered the recession better than just about every other developed economy, thanks in part to a quick recovery in emerging economies and thus in commodity prices.

«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.

Canada's economy is more heavily dependent than the U.S.'s on commodities industries (think oil, mining, and timber) and on banking.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

«The economy here is much more diversified than it was, say, 20 years ago and not as vulnerable to fluctuating commodity prices,» explains Michael Kehoe of Fairfield Commercial Real Estate.

Other commodity markets are behaving similarly because there is more supply than a sluggish global economy can absorb.

Thus, many emerging markets» growth rates in the next decade may be lower than in the last — as may the outsize returns that investors realised from these economies» financial assets (currencies, equities, bonds, and commodities).

The surge in commodity prices increased the terms of trade — the ratio of the price of exported goods to the price of imported goods — in both economies, but the effect in Australia was far stronger than what we saw:

Although the adjustment has been difficult, it has occurred over a longer period of time than the boom in commodity prices and, in general, Canada has not lost ground relative to other advanced economies.

Alberta, like petro - economies everywhere, will soon have more pressing problems than simply managing the boom and bust cycles that define the commodity world.

Conditions in the economy are tighter now than in the aftermath of the Asian crisis, the deflationary impulse from Asian producers is no longer present and world commodity prices are rising.

We regard the greater stability in commodity prices, along with a lessening of volatility in financial markets, as welcome, and believe it should provide a more stable platform for the global economy, where growth remains acceptable, if lower than desirable.

An appreciation of the exchange rate means that: the increase in the domestic currency price of commodity exports will be less than the increase in world commodity prices; the income of the other tradable sector will fall; and real income gains flow to the broader economy via the associated decline in the price of imports.

First, food and energy are a bigger part of CPI baskets in these countries than in the developed economies, so the impact there of the rises in commodity prices is larger.

The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed market and emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed market stocks would underperform U.S. stocks in 2017.

While we believe lower commodity prices are a boon to the economy over time, the abruptness of their price decline and a lingering «commodity super-cycle» mentality likely caught many with more commodity inventory (acquired at higher prices) than proved desirable.

Since both capitalist and Marxist theory developed without consideration of the contribution of the natural world to the economy, any consideration of nature as something other than a commodity falls outside the discipline of economics.

The Food & Beverage Manufacturing Business Group organised a meeting bringing Ministry of Economy officials together with more than 25 representatives from the UAE's food and beverage sector to discuss commodity prices and consumer protection.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisited).

According to government officials, the economy would have recovered from the commodities price shock experienced last year and expanded faster than it did had the energy challenges been addressed earlier.

When the dollar suddenly strengthened beginning in 2014 and emerging markets decelerated more quickly than expected, assets tied to industrial commodities output or geared to the global economy turned down together.

For example, many investors drawn to emerging market bond funds in recent years by payouts that were sometimes more than twice that of U.S. Treasuries have experienced double - digit losses over the past 12 months, as growth prospects for emerging market economies have begun to fade in the face of China's economic troubles and falling commodity prices.

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 whole.

And the run - up in commodity prices has more to do with the emergence of the economies of India and China than with anything related to ethanol policy.

Financial assets have grown by a large multiple of the real economy — paper exchanging for paper is now 20 times greater than exchanges of paper for real commodities.

If the food value of a commodity is less than its fuel value, the market will move it into the energy economy.

We should be under no illusion as to the impact of this fraud upon the national economy, where it is estimated to cost the UK more than # 50bn every year with crimes ranging from investment fraud schemes to the hacking of businesses to obtain that most valuable of commodities, personal data.

Because of this, the Russian economy fell into a deeper recession than other commodity - based economies, weakening the ruble relative to the USD further than what otherwise would have been expected.