Sentences with phrase «energy price swings»

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Second, despite much talk of «energy independence» down south, the truth is, though, that Uncle Sam's domestic production won't insulate America from oil - price swings.

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

Such extreme swings in energy prices are leaving companies and consumers paralyzed.

Shares of energy companies are set to book their steepest monthly drop in August since the end of 2015, when the oil price crash was in full swing.

The table below summarizes the state of the U.S. consumer, revisiting my April post FACTS & TRENDS: The U.S. Consumer About to Retrench and showing how sensitive the consumer is to swings energy prices.

The 0.3 percentage point increase in headline CPI between December and January largely reflected the 0.25 percentage point higher contribution from energy prices as they swung from a decline in December to an increase in January.

The government also plays an important role in encouraging value - added products and renewable energy initiatives, as well as easing electricity price swings without imposing arbitrary taxes that disadvantage retailers.

While we believe that current energy market fundamentals justify an oil price of $ 50 or above, we also note that productivity gains in US shale fields have increased the elasticity of supply from these critical swing producers, a factor that could cap any significant price appreciation.

Large swings in energy prices were the primary driver for the September spike and October retreat.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

And just as energy prices are bottoming out, major financial institutions are predicting that the stock market is close to ending its wild price swings as investors respond to the federal government's unprecedented moves to breathe new life into the economy.

Proponents say that today energy utilities find greater benefit in a technology that puts the financial risk up front, in the construction cost, and has little vulnerability to later swings in the price of fuel, as natural gas does, or to changes in emissions regulations, as coal faces.

Therefore, expanding access to energy choice and free market energy options is likely to become an important hedge against supply and price swings in 2017 and beyond.

But are the rapid swings of energy prices a risk in and of themselves?

The history of energy is a volatile one, as markets shift under the pressure of extreme price swings, technology breakthroughs, geopolitical stresses, and environmental change.

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The world seems like a volatile and risky place with the massive daily swings in the stock market, rising energy prices, approaching fiscal cliff, slump in commodities, ongoing European Union debt crisis and omnipresent geopolitical risks flaming up and pushing already weak U.S. and global economies into recession once again.