Sentences with phrase «falls in energy prices»

Even if growth in the region did show signs of picking up in 2015 — and recent sharp falls in energy prices should support growth, though put further pressure on lowflation — given structural constraints, ultimately growth is likely to be limited to the region's trend rate, somewhere between 1 % and 2 %.

In both cases, this primarily reflected recent falls in energy prices.

(Another good question, which I won't get into, asks about regional variation in wage growth; outside of states hit by the fall in energy prices, moodys.com reports that wages have picked up in most parts of the country.)

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.

The fall in energy prices came as Abbott blamed renewable energy for lifting retail electricity bills.

Not exact matches

Oil prices might have bottomed as output in the United States and other non-OPEC producers is beginning to fall quickly and an increase in supply from Iran has been less than dramatic, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made traders even more reluctant to buy.

The so - called core - core inflation index, which excludes food and energy prices and is similar to the core index used in the United States, fell an annual 0.6 percent.

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 consumeIn 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 consumein Chinese manufacturing increased worries over the health of the world's biggest energy consumer.

The company, which had made its name providing investors with a steady income from its oil and gas wells, cut its dividend in half as capital spending rose and energy prices fell.

The share prices of the world's two biggest wind turbine manufacturers have fallen after the U.S. House of Representatives proposed whipping away tax credits for renewable energy in order to pay for tax cuts elsewhere.

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But the defense contractor experienced a double whammy in 2014 between falling oil prices (triggering cutbacks on energy projects) and the substantial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, reducing the need for the company's services there.

Just ask the investors who thought energy stocks were a screaming bargain in the fall of 2014 — just months before the oil price collapsed.

First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

The energy sector fell 1.1 percent on the back of a more than 1 percent drop in crude oil prices as the dollar remained near a four - month high.

Expectations were for prices to fall 0.4 % in December from the prior month, with prices expected to rise 0.1 % when stripping out the more volatile costs of food and energy.

We predicted falling prices would make solar energy cheaper than fossil fuel in most states; that was overly exuberant.

CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX: CVE) is raising $ 1.5 billion through the sale of 67.5 million common shares in a move aimed at shoring up its balance sheet in the face of oil prices that have fallen to half the level of June.

NEW YORK (MainStreet)-- Falling oil prices could send property values tumbling in Houston and other energy - dependent cities but rising elsewhere.

Kolko's analysis found that job cuts in oil - rich cities don't typically happen until about six months after energy prices tank, and property values don't fall until one or two years after that.

But now, Kolko expects home prices in oil - rich communities to begin falling in the next year or two unless energy markets recover, although he added that it's «very hard to say how big or long the effect might be.»

Prices pared losses after the Energy Information Administration released data showing U.S. crude inventories fell by 4.6 million barrels in the latest week.

Banks and utility companies slipped, and energy companies took losses as oil prices fell for the fourth day in a row.

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.

But with energy prices falling, Vladimir Putin's Russia has essentially been in a recession over the past four years.

It's highly likely that population growth has slowed in energy - producing areas since July 2015: more recent jobs data have shown that falling oil prices hurt energy - sector employment.

There is typically a bit of a lag between falling energy prices and their effect on consumer spending, but by Q3 12, declining energy prices should be supporting real consumer spending; we look for 2.5 % consumer spending growth in H2 12.

The financial crisis in 2008, alternate sources of energy, new discoveries especially in the US and the lifting of sanctions against Iran have all contributed to the fall in crude prices.

With reports of producers asking suppliers for price breaks to help them remain financially viable as energy prices have fallen, the modest decline in energy stocks could well be just the beginning of a longer trend that will include dramatic revenue declines for most companies throughout 2015.

Spending on durable goods rose 0.8 % in the month, but nondurable goods spending fell 0.2 % on a 2.8 % drop in energy prices.

But if you happen to live in a region that's a big energy producer, falling oil prices may soon take a bite out of your state's budget.

Energy companies, which have had to contend with falling oil prices, delivered more than 7 % EPS growth on a 3.5 % decline in revenues.

ENERGY: Oil prices fell back from spikes last week on fears over an escalation of strife in the Middle East.

Shares in energy companies fell as the price of U.S. crude oil declined.

According to Friday's report, energy prices fell 2.4 % in April from March, and were down 25.2 % over the last 12 months.

Energy prices fell by 3 percent over the month as gasoline prices were 4.9 percent lower than their level in February.

U.S. producer prices fell in March for the first time in seven months, weighed down by a drop in the cost of services and energy products, but the largest annual increase in five years suggested inflation was rising.

When we first invested in the energy sector in 2013 we assumed that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could not afford to let oil prices fall.

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

Despite ample wind and sun, some of the highest electricity prices in the country, and the steep cost decline in renewable energy technologies, Puerto Rico has fallen far behind other US regions in renewable energy investment, forming barely 2 percent of its generation mix.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude oil futures added 28 cents to $ 45.11 in electronic trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange while Brent crude, the benchmark for international oil prices, fell 6 cents to $ 47.20 a barrel in London.

With the cost of renewable energy and lithium ion batteries falling in price aided by regulation and technological advances, this level of capital destruction can not be allowed to happen again.

But analysts also failed to accurately gauge the impact of the recession on energy use, and feed - in tariffs [long - term contracts for renewable energy at a fixed price per kilowatt - hour] did not take into account falling demand.

However, should slowing global economic growth or recession result in a long - term reduction (three to five years) in energy prices, then U.S. Silica and its peers will face the prospect of their current lucrative contracts expiring and themselves sitting atop literal mountains of frac sand, while demand may have fallen off a cliff.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, has today (Tuesday 16 October) warned that the fall in inflation is being threatened by greedy energy companies whose price hikes will re-ignite inflation putting further pressure on working families and the struggling economy.

Its fall in support was partially reversed for five months from last September — a period when Labour MPs voted against attacking Syria and plans to freeze energy prices and repeal the Bedroom Tax were announced.

Since the 1970's at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in alternative sources of energy, although funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among other factors.

What has surprised many energy experts is the dramatic fall in the prices that the RECs will have to pay to generators since the last round in 1991.