Sentences with phrase «energy prices lead»

A 3.0 % advance (1.1 % y / y) in energy prices led the increase in wholesale prices last month.

Energy prices led the monthly gain, with gasoline prices rising 3.1 %.

So, a large rise in oil / energy prices leads to a decrease in the deflator, leading to higher «real» GDP.

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Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

«In recent quarters, weaker foreign demand has dampened business investment, and low oil prices have weighed on energy - related investment, both of which have typically led to slower PDFP growth.

All the major oilsands companies are seriously pushing technology to reduce emissions and costs, and have been doing so extremely seriously the past couple years since the price crash of late 2014 and the Paris Agreement,» says Vredenburg, who also led a team of researchers that studied open innovation among energy companies.

(Reuters)- U.S. power producer Calpine Corp CPN.N said it would sell itself to a group of investors led by Energy Capital Partners for $ 5.6 billion, as the debt - laden company struggles with depressed natural gas prices.

The oil markets are improving and the energy sector has strengthened on the stabilized prices, with oil refiners and sector - related ETF leading the charge this year.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

This could lead to select opportunities among Energy, Technology, and Financials stocks in the U.S.. However, any notable economic improvements could close the window on such opportunities, and lead to higher short - term interest rates in the U.S. sooner than is currently priced into the markets.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Energy companies led U.S. stocks higher Tuesday as investors hoped higher oil prices and bigger profits are on the way.

U.S. food - price inflation may top the government's forecast as higher crop, meat, dairy and energy costs lead companies including Nestle SA, McDonald's Corp. and Whole Foods Market Inc. to boost prices.

What some people are calling the American energy renaissance has also led to lower oil prices.

Investors are now almost unanimously assuming a vicious circle, whereby collapsing oil prices cause a global slowdown, which leads to even weaker energy demand and further oil price declines.

That lower baseline energy demand as well as marginal increases in supplies has led to lower global oil and gas prices and more competitive pressure on the uranium space.

Tudor (Tudor, Pickering, Holt and Co., an energy investment bank) analysts said in Friday research note that part of steep drop in prices could be attributed to trading algorithms in the market, which can lead to widespread sell - offs once prices reach a specific threshold».

The producer - price index, reflecting how much firms pay for everything from paper to trucks, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 % from November, led by a jump in energy costs, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

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.

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The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

The five leading price performers (Patterson - UTI Energy, Lear, Bruker, Crane and TD Ameritrade) are all smaller holdings in the Fund, meaning that their outsized price increases did not make them leading contributors.

High oil prices may well lead to a collapse in demand over the long term, resulting in a speeding up of the energy transition that most experts see on the horizon

For example, higher oil prices in the past have led to breakthrough innovations in alternative energy.

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.

Incorporating triple bottom - line sustainability principles across all aspects of their business, the company deployed solar arrays at eight wineries and collaborated with Tesla to reduce energy demand and increase grid reliability, utilized industry - first water conservation technologies, introduced human resource initiatives to improve employees» well - being, paid a price premium for certified sustainable winegrapes and led voluntary drought initiatives.

The pledge to freeze energy prices received wide support in post-election polling, and when it comes to which party would be better at increasing people's living standards, Miliband and his party have a lead (albeit, a narrow two - point one) over Cameron and the Conservatives.

Ed Miliband's energy price freeze would lead to power cuts if wholesale prices rose, the co-founder of energyhelpline.com has told Politics.co.uk.

We need a # 110bn investment in our energy infrastructure, and a failure to invest now will lead to an increased dependence on imported fossil fuels, which are subject to volatile price spikes and security of supply issues.

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.

Leading politicians debate climate change, energy prices and the countryside in a Daily Politics election debate.

Iran has the fourth largest proven oil reserves in the world, according to the US Energy Information Agency and any additional oil would add to the one million barrels a day of over-supply that has led to a more than 70 % collapse in oil prices since the middle of 2014.

But the script accuses Higgins of being «so detached from reality that while families in New York are forced to pay more than $ 3.70 a gallon, Higgins has been in Washington supporting big - government policies that lead to higher gas prices and restrain the production of American - made energy.»

Price comparison website uSwitch warns other suppliers will probably follow Npower's lead and up to 24 million households are now braced for double - digit energy bill rises.

Saudi Arabia has raised domestic energy prices by as much as 40 percent after the world's leading oil producer announced a record $ 98bn budget deficit on Monday citing rock - bottom global petroleum prices.

This includes 25 % of the British energy sector, and the move to privatise energy has led to a 10 - 20 % increase in energy prices.

A Brooklyn federal jury convicted former HSBC foreign currency exchange executive Mark Johnson of leading a scheme to defraud Scottish oil and gas developer Cairn Energy PLC by ramping up the price of British pounds sterling ahead of a $ 3.5 billion forex deal.

Peter Atherton, a leading energy analyst, warned last week that investment in power generation was «killed stone dead» until the next election by Ed Miliband's call for a price freeze and government delays in introducing promised electricity market reform.

Critics say this leads some companies to «price shop» for the cheapest RECs, regardless of how or where the clean energy is produced, instead of taking concrete steps to reduce emissions close to home or constructing renewable energy infrastructure.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

A weak economy and rising energy prices have led to a buzz over building efficiency.

Berkeley officials hoped that the soda tax would raise prices and lead residents to avoid energy - dense sugar - sweetened beverages, considered a culprit for high rates of obesity and chronic disease.

• Abundant, less expensive natural gas would lower energy prices across the board, leading people to use more energy overall.

Those kinds of prices, guaranteed for between 10 and 20 years, have helped fuel a surge in renewable energy development in Japan, leading to the addition of nearly 11,000 MW of solar capacity since 2012 while an additional 72,000 MW remains in the development pipeline, according to METI estimates.

Our aim was to explore the longer - term impacts of completely different oil price futures, in terms of the future energy mix and carbon emissions,» says IIASA energy researcher David McCollum, who led the study.

The nation's feed - in tariffs guarantee 25 years of up to triple the market price for solar energy, making it the world's hottest solar market, trailing only subsidy - richer Germany as well as the U.S. with its historical lead in developing solar technology.

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Arvato increased its revenues noticeably, but higher prices for energy and paper as well as start - up costs for new projects led to a decline in operating EBIT.

The R&D kept going for a while even after energy prices started falling, leading demand to fall further.

Personally, I think it will lead to higher prices still and a lot more planting (on land previously considered marginal) for food, not energy purposes.

Consumers, rather than following the lead of the mass market media who were telling them that the fall in energy prices presented a tax cut for them to spend, have elected to save for a rainy day.