Sentences with phrase «energy prices tend»

During a drought, energy prices tend to increase due to the reduced ability to generate hydropower and the need to replace that hydropower with more expensive energy sources.

Since energy prices tend to be volatile, energy stocks could be a good choice for a buy low / sell high strategy.

Food and energy prices tend to be much more volatile than the rest of the goods and services included in the CPI - U and subject to more temporary shock.

«Consumer spending has been growing, we think this can continue because the decrease in energy prices tends to effect consumer spending with a lag and so we are going to continue to see positives to lower energy prices.»

Not exact matches

We tend to focus all our energies on our business features — from pricing to product claims to timetables.

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

After stripping out prices for food and energy, which tend to be more volatile, prices rose by just 0.7 % in the 12 months to December — the lowest rate of «core» inflation since records began in January 2001.

The recent brief recovery in energy prices has pushed up the goods component of the CPI (from -2.3 % in September 2015 to -1.6 % in February 2016), but service price inflation (at +2.4 % in February 2016), which tends to lag somewhat, has not yet come down.

«And in the context of a falling oil price, it is precisely these kinds of high - quality defensive energy stocks that tend to outperform.»

Based on 20 years of global data and nearly 90 years of US data, the energy sector has never been cheaper on price - to - book multiples than it was at the end of 2015.1 The skeptics» response to these compelling headline valuations tends to be suspicion of book values, which indeed are likely overstated in some instances and vulnerable to further impairment.

In his vision, billions of robots on the ocean floor tend tanks of compressed air that power turbines, the Southwest is known affectionately as algae country, and energy traders make their fortunes speculating on the price of chicken - manure gas.

From a sector perspective, energy, materials and financials make up more than a third of the MSCI Europe Index.2 Many of these companies tend do well when inflation is rising and bond yields are rising because typically inflation nudges up commodity prices and financial companies tend to profit when the yield curve steepens.

This is important as these components of inflation tend to be «stickier» and larger than energy prices.

(A lot of energy - technology boosters insist that the market can do this alone if the price of polluting energy options is raised; recent stories by Matt Wald and me tend to agree that, with or without the market, big engineering and physics hurdles remain.)

Low fossil fuel prices tend to hurt the economic viability of low - carbon energy alternatives, and thus are generally regarded as a negative development in the fight against climate change.

Electricity expenditures also generally rise with Clean Power Plan implementation, but expenditure changes are smaller in percentage terms than price changes as the combination of energy - efficiency programs pursued for compliance purposes and higher electricity prices tends to reduce electricity consumption relative to baseline.

The two parties tend to agree on the relative importance of economic issues when considering energy policies, with 56 % of Democrats and 59 % and Republicans saying that creating jobs within the energy sector should be a top priority, and 61 % and 71 %, respectively, saying the U.S. should focus most on keeping consumer energy prices low.

Cost is also a factor, not only in the initial investment required for wind turbines, but in the hefty price tag for moving energy from wind farms — which tend to be located away from metro areas — to power distribution sites.

The problem with all these methods is they tend to involve capital that will be sitting idle when energy prices are not low, which tends to make them expensive despite the low cost energy being available at times.

«What's important to keep in mind when talking about solar and electricity prices is that solar energy production tends to align very well with the highest energy demand on a utility's system.

Our carbon tax spreadsheet model predicts that after an initial rapid 15 % drop due to the bill's aggressive starting price, CO2 emissions would rise on account of increased affluence and the rise in energy demand that tends to accompany it in the absence of continuing price incentives.

lifestyle «depend on inexpensive and plentiful energy,» the Congressional Research Service noted in a 2005 report, but people tend to forget this until world events cause gasoline prices to spike.

Traditional available power contracts tend to be short term — because power prices can quickly change — and as renewable energy subsidies disappear, wind farms will need long - terms contracts to secure financing.