Sentences with phrase «energy commodity prices»

That's a much better result than a lot of other energy companies, where investors have saw decimated fundamentals in the wake of cratering energy commodity prices.

What are your thoughts on Apache's prospects if the medium - term future is characterized by low energy commodity prices?

That's a much better result than a lot of other energy companies, where investors have saw decimated fundamentals in the wake of cratering energy commodity prices.

Still a fantastic result here, which happens to run through a time period that includes the financial crisis and more recent massive drop in energy commodity prices.

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In 2017, DeAngelis followed the Trump Administration's pro-energy policies and its America First Energy Plan, covering a range of stories from pipelines, to natural gas, to coal and their impact on raw commodity and stock prices.

In the commodities space, oil prices are headed for their eighth consecutive week of falls on Friday, the longest losing streak since 1986, according to Reuters, after the news of a sharp drop in Chinese manufacturing increased worries over the health of the world's biggest energy consumer.

Any commodities business comes with some volatility — the oil and gas business has had a tough couple of years amid low energy prices.

The company has also had to take big losses related to write - downs of the value of its oil and gas assets, to reflect the lower prices these energy commodities are garnering on the open market.

Falling energy and commodities prices were a common theme among the worst - performing stocks on this year's list.

Not only that, it would have a cascading effect across the western Canadian economy, with prices for commodities like copper, coking coal (used to make steel girders for apartment blocks) and even energy probably tanking.

The next few weeks will give investors an insight into whether the production cuts by OPEC and non-OPEC will be fully implemented and will be a crucial period for prices of the commodity, according to a new monthly report by the IEA (International Energy Agency).

Prices for crude oil, the world economy's most essential commodity, will need until 2020 to recover from the price war unleashed last year by Saudi Arabia, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the global energy mEnergy Agency said Tuesday in its annual outlook for the global energy menergy market.

We supply most of the energy and food consumed at home, providing a cushion against swings in global commodity prices.

That's even true within some beaten - down sectors, such as energy and materials, where companies are dealing with industry headwinds such as falling commodity prices, which could depress these stocks further.

We also favour energy stocks at a time when commodity prices are firming on supply / demand rebalancing, and the geopolitical risk premium is once again coursing through oil markets.

Even if President Obama approved Keystone XL or the National Energy Board gave the green light to Energy East, falling commodity prices mean that soon there might not be enough oil flowing out of northern Alberta to fill those new pipelines.

Given the energy industry's dependence on commodity prices, the sector tends to be cyclical and profitability can be highly variable.

Lower commodity prices and the drop in energy - related business investment are acting as significant drags.

An economist who correctly predicted the fall in oil price this year has told CNBC that the U.S. government could look to bail out its energy sector in 2015 as the commodity's low price starts hitting the country's economy.

From the mid 2000s, the prices for commodities used to produce steel and generate energy — including iron ore, coal and natural gas — rose sharply.

U.K. shares recovered from early losses to trade marginally higher on Thursday as higher commodity prices helped lift mining and energy stocks and the pound weakened slightly after the release of disappointing services sector data.

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.

Overall inflation has risen over the past two years, pushed up primarily by higher prices for energy and other commodities and industrial inputs.

While investment in the energy sector now appears to be stabilizing after a painful adjustment to the decline in oil and other commodity prices that began in 2014, overall business investment in the economy remains weak.

The chart below, supplied by Vivek Dhar, a mining and energy commodities analyst at CBA, reveals the recent trend in Chinese house prices.

Using daily closing prices for the most liquid contract for each of 35 (6 energy, 10 commodity, 6 government bond, 6 currency exchange rate and 7 equity index) futures contract series as available during January 1987 through December 2013, he finds that: Keep Reading

Ours includes a big run up for an Emerging Market, a couple of large cap energy stocks rebounding and an improvement in prices for a key commodity.

Bottom line: Enbridge Inc. (ENB) is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, with most of its cash flow supported by long - term commercial agreements that don't depend on commodity pricing.

Commodity prices continued their downward spiral, resulting from the surprise contraction in Chinese demand, following years of heavy investment and innovation to increase the supply of energy and industrial commodities.

This could be positive for a commodity price (such as in Oil), as the increased economic activity will likely lead to greater sales of energy products.

The dramatic plunge in the prices of oil and industrial commodities as a result of slowing demand from China together with increased supply from the United States, decimated energy and materials companies» profits.

Topping the leaderboard on Tuesday was the energy sector as commodity prices moved higher following the Chinese President's remarks.

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.

I'm somewhat disinclined to believe that the current gold price is due strictly to excess supply with discussion of price manipulation always looming, but the general thesis remains that until these global excesses are mopped up, successful commodity investing will involve focus on a narrow subset of raw materials — in our case the Energy Metals.

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.

Some of the price rises for Australia's important commodities, for example, signal international pressure on steel prices and non-oil energy costs, and therefore a range of other prices.

There has been considerably less adjustment of interest rates in the current episode, however, relative to earlier commodity price booms; for example, the energy boom in the late 1970s / early 1980s, which was smaller than the current resource boom.

We saw the stabilization of energy and commodity prices, as well as synchronized strengthening of consumers throughout the world.

The commodity selloff has been quite broad and includes industrial and previous metals, energy prices, and agriculturals.

We also still favor assets levered to rising oil prices — energy stocks and select master limited partnerships — and other commodities that should benefit from accelerating global growth.

Inflation has been high, spurred by the declines earlier increases in the prices of energy and some other commodities and the weaker prospects for economic activity, the.

Last week we saw a continued selloff in energy stocks and a slump in commodity prices, specifically oil.

Oil commodity prices also weakened in March, which hurt the performance of our energy holdings during the quarter, but we believe supply - and - demand dynamics will lead to higher commodity price trends over the long term.

Barden said that input costs are rising on everything from commodities to labour to energy, and the six years of retail price deflation and rising labour costs the industries had undergone «continues to cut margins, placing the sector under increasing pressure».

A lesser increase in prices of energy and commodities compared with 2006 will ease the pressure on processors, according to a new report by Standard and Poor's.

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.

More than three quarters of the firms surveyed said that their costs had increased in the quarter, mainly due to rising commodity prices as more than half of respondents (57 %) cite rising energy costs, and 49 per cent increase in the cost of raw materials as the reason.

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.

The trading of any commodity — whether wheat, pork bellies or renewable energy credits — is essentially the same, but it helps to have an understanding of the reality behind the abstract: the color - coded blinking numbers on a broker's multiple computer screens that reflect current prices in a spread of different regional carbon markets, like the European Carbon Exchange.

«Moving from transition metal elements to synthesized molecules is a significant advancement because it links battery costs to manufacturing rather than commodity metals pricing» said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this resenergy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this resEnergy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this resEnergy Reliability (OE), which funded this research.