Sentences with phrase «from lower commodity prices»

And you're against any sort of new pipeline construction in NY so we wont benefit much from lower commodity prices.

Sven Eenmaa, who covers the stock for Stifel, said that while savings on lighting projects from lower commodity prices will get passed on to consumers over time, Acuity Brands should see a near - term boost.

Two weeks after Redford's remarks, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters lower government revenues follow from lower commodity prices like «night follows the day,» meaning a hard line of spending as he approaches his own coming budget.

Not exact matches

Many commentators go on to conclude that the higher incomes generated by high commodity prices have given Canadians a temporary reprieve from the problem of low productivity growth.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower amid strong earnings from the tech sector and commodity prices eased on concerns as China moves to reform its industrial sector.

HOUSTON, Feb 5 - Oil prices settled lower on Monday as rising U.S. output, a weaker physical market and recent dollar strength added to the pressure from a widespread decline across equities and commodities markets.

There were a few reasons: the transition from Fed quantitative easing to anticipation of interest rate hikes and worries about the impact of lower commodity prices and slowing Chinese growth.

Although this has been leading to moderately bullish price action in select blue - chip stocks such as $ IBM, more explosive, high - momentum moves have been coming from various commodity - based ETFs (which have a low correlation to the direction of the overall stock market).

EM Asia benefits from lower commodity import prices, while the majority of countries within EM EMEA and LATAM are commodity exporters.

But again, the prediction that these would be star - performing economies was at best half right; as the commodities exporters (Indonesia and Nigeria) suffered from lower global prices, while Turkey and Mexico faced political turmoil.

Shifting (a nascent trend) from a global savings glut supported by lower commodity prices and toward narrowing global imbalances amid stronger global demand, which will depend to some extent on whether China can succeed in making the middle income transition.

The Canadian economy continues to work its way back from the post-crisis global recession and the associated collapse in our exports while, at the same time, is adjusting to lower prices for oil and other commodities as well as a much lower exchange rate.

Cocoa has been the strongest commodity in 2018 as we rallied about 25 % from the low as prices may have gotten ahead of themselves, but I will keep a close eye on this market.

From a broader economic standpoint low prices are a requirement to cut supply and reduce excess capacity across a range of commodities.

Important near - term influences on prices will be the significant increases in production costs that have occurred recently, arising from higher fuel prices, increases in a range of other commodity prices and the effect of the lower exchange rate on prices of imported inputs.

We are seeing signs that the next eight years will be starkly different from what we've seen over the past eight, which were a strengthening U.S. dollar, plunging interest rates, currency devaluations across the Western world, rising stock markets, falling commodity prices, low inflation, etc..

At the same time, news from Europe indicated an excellent harvest, which pushed commodity prices lower and rattled markets.

Thus, from Australia's perspective, the Asian slowdown may have its biggest effect not through lower export volumes, but through a fall in commodity prices, some (or, conceivably, a lot) of which has already happened because these markets are forward looking.

The out - performance reflects the benefits flowing to the Latin American region not only from low US interest rates (these countries have large US dollar borrowings) but also its exposure to stronger growth outcomes in the US, with strong rises in the prices of key commodity exports boosting the price of local mining companies.

Sure, commodity consumers benefit from lower prices as producers lose.

I believe much of the recent market volatility really results from the second - and third - order effects of lower commodity prices.

Mr Tracy also said the cut to farm gate price — the first since the financial crisis - from $ 5.60 to $ 4.75 - $ 5 a kilogram, would be much lower if the company didn't switch from commodities to consumer brand products.

Rural vendors could be in the box seats this spring selling season with a low volume of listings, strong demand from cashed - up farmers and corporate investors and rising commodity prices set to push up asking prices for many trophy properties.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

Gaining resources, increasing production capacity, and low commodity prices keep these small farm operations from competing in the market.

If Amazon makes the Kindle look like a commodity, it will only be a short while before competitors from Taiwan and China flood the market with similar low priced devices.

If I want the ebook of a new Carl Hiaasen novel, I become a commodity shopper, buying at the lowest price from pretty much equal vendors.

«We expect both monetary policy divergence and minimal support from commodity prices to push the currency lower over time.

Canada's resource sector has been slammed as the price of crude has fallen from a high above $ 105 in June 2014 to below $ 40 over the past few months, just as other commodities are at or near multi-year lows.

What I can say from a strategic perspective is that 1) I like a purchase of assets at historically low prices, 2) MFC has some expertise in the commodity business so this isn't completely outside their playing field, 3) perhaps, worst case, there could be a strategy to purchase the assets in bulk at a distress sale and then sell them off piecemeal for a profit, and 4) while this may be a role of the dice (who knows where gas prices will be a year from now) MFC is not betting the ranch; the total investment will be about CDN $ 75 million ($ 33 for the outstanding shares, $ 8 million for the warrants, $ 30 million additional investment and I've estimated $ 4 million for transaction costs), or less than 25 % of MFC's current cash hoard.

Fed officials have argued that despite recent jumps in the prices of commodities and food, inflation is in check because underlying measures have climbed only modestly from historic lows.

An overweight to commodities in backwardation (or in less - extreme contango) in order to capture a relatively high and attractive roll yield, and an overweight to commodities with higher recent performance in order to benefit from short - term persistence in commodity price movements (i.e., positive momentum), can have meaningfully positive impacts on portfolio performance.3, 4 We compare the performance of four portfolios — high versus low roll yield and high versus low momentum — from January 1999 to June 2016.

Reforms to the EU ETS have already seen the price of carbon allowances triple, from a low of $ 4.38 per tonne in May 2017 to $ 13.82 per tonne in April 2018, making them the world's best performing energy commodity in the last year.

The letter emphasizes, «Effective disclosure of the market risks from climate change would focus on how low - carbon scenarios would impact commodity demand and price and include the knock - on effects of those shifts on future capital expenditure plans, liquidity and reserves valuations, if any.»

In particular, depending mainly on (i) exactly how much abatement might be required over 2019 - 23, (ii) the amount and availability of combined - cycle gas - turbine (CCGT) generation capacity with the required efficiency levels, and (iii) the evolution of commodity prices between now and 2021, the carbon price required to plug the supply gap could be lower or higher than the levels we have imputed from our modelling of the supply - demand dynamics in the EU - ETS over 2019 - 23, and the fuel - switching price levels implied by current forward curves.

Max, Don't forget the pipeline MLPs, which provide good tax deferred returns and have much lower commodity pricing risk, and the service companies will also benefit from nat gas E&P, also without the commodity pricing risk.

Land valuations, lending criteria, misrepresentation from business advisors, increasing cost of production, low commodity prices, over regulation, animal rights activists all these, and many more reasons are causing a tidal wave to crash down on the rural -LSB-...]

As the industry emerges from a period of low commodity prices, many professionals feel the industry must continue to invest in young talent who can help find solutions to these complex issues.

According to a 2017 Africa Report by Knight Frank, Tanzania is one of a small group of African nations to have maintained GDP growth in excess of 5 % in 2016, as it is an importer of commodities, and so benefitted from low oil prices as well as growth in private consumption and investment.