Sentences with phrase «from oil funds»

An amount of GH cents 3.65 million, from oil funds, was used for the re-branding of 116 Metro Mass Rapid Transit buses.

Not exact matches

Data from hedge fund analytical tool Kensho that examined patterns coinciding with U.S. military actions in the Middle East dating back to the 1990s show that in the day, week and month after a Mideast strike, oil has underperformed other assets, and the energy sector has been one of the worst in the S&P 500.

«Cenovus is impressed by General Fusion's innovative, pragmatic approach,» executive vice-president Judy Fairburn explained in a release announcing the $ 3.8 - million investment from the oil company's Environmental Opportunity Fund.

Tumbling oil prices spell bad news, both for overall growth and the financial position of the government, which is reliant on tax revenues from its energy industry to fund the budget.

A number of funds bet heavily on an oil rally early in the year, boosting long futures positions to a record in late February, before oil went into a prolonged slump as global supply remained elevated despite cuts from OPEC.

The Federal Reserve did not help in the process as their response to increasing oil prices and the war in the Middle East was to RAISE the short term Fed Funds rate from 5.50 to over 10 percent.

Speaking at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, the closely - watched DoubleLine Capital LP chief executive officer recommended a trade of shorting, or betting against, Facebook while betting on gains in an exchange - traded fund that tracks oil and gas explorers and producers who could benefit from rising inflation.

Take government - owned sovereign wealth funds for example: Over $ 5 trillion is invested in global capital markets from SWF's coming directly from oil - producing nations.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis has the latest results from CNBC's exclusive survey on what analyst, traders and major energy funds are expecting from OPEC's November 30th meeting and its likely impact on oil prices.

At the Sohn Investment Conference in New York this week, billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach said investors should consider a trade that includes betting on gains in an exchange - traded fund that tracks oil and gas explorers and producers who could benefit from rising inflation.

The Russian economy has been hit by low oil prices and western sanctions and is set to contract 0.6 percent this year, according to data from the International Monetary Fund.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

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Malaysia's economy and currency are suffering from «an almost perfect storm» due to an outflow of funds from emerging markets, low oil prices and China's slowdown, the country's economic planning minister said on Tuesday.

Jan. 9, 2012: Then - natural resources minister Joe Oliver issues an open letter branding oil pipeline opponents «radicals» who are attempting to «hijack» the hearing process with funds from «foreign special interest groups.»

We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

Last November, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended the government of Mali's deficit reduction, praising GDP growth of more than 5 % arising from strong harvests and government spending, even as the cost of oil imports moved higher.

With assistance from the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds and Canada's Ship - Source Oil Pollution Fund, that vessel owner would be expected to muster a maximum of $ 1.36 billion for a single spill, according to Kinder Morgan.

Oil finishes higher Thursday, as traders worried that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement and the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel...

He's also chairman of a $ 26 million fund, BH Logistics, established in April with backing from a Chinese conglomerate, and a $ 40 million fund involved in shale oil exploration, according to documents filed in June and first reported on by Bloomberg News.

Latest case in point comes from a NY Times report that de Blasio is trying to strong - arm trustees of NYC employee pension funds — who are supposed to be fiduciaries of their beneficiaries, not mayoral rubber stamps — into divesting from oil stocks:

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Despite efforts from the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to reassure investors their business models are compatible with a low - carbon economy, some 71 per cent of fund managers said they have not yet decided whether they think oil companies can make a successful transition to a low carbon economy, and 41 per cent do not have a strategy for engaging with oil companies on the issue.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Evan Solomon: The government of Alberta, they point to these statistics: the oil sands creates $ 307 billion in tax revenue, $ 187 billion for the federal government, 23 % of employment is from oil sands, 7 % of employment in Canada from the oil sands and in Ontario alone, 7 %, they say, of employment comes from the oil sands and they say royalties of $ 1.9 billion fund programs across the country.

She said her government would also establish an economic development fund for the province and work to ensure that business owners benefit as much as possible from the oil exploration project on Anticosti Island.

Oil up a second session as potential for U.S. withdrawal from Iran nuclear pact grows Natural - gas prices settle at a 2 - week lowOil finishes higher Thursday, as traders worried that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement and the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela from the international coalition of nations will lead to tighter global crude supplies.

The government will also finance the construction of 230,000 new homes using funds from the pre-sale of the oil - backed crypto.

Their construction will be financed with funds from the sale of the oil - backed currency.

Driving its slump was the decision to spend $ 2.1 billion to acquire the Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company from a private equity fund.

Eventually, Rockefeller's oil operations became so vast that he could fund all of his expansion efforts from his own profits, but there was a point in time in which Morgan was mad as hell that he couldn't get an asset override on Rockefeller's wealth, and you better believe there is a take - home lesson in that anecdote.

There was a time when actively managed funds — which can include a mix of stocks, bonds or other assets (from commodities like oil to real estate)-- were the norm.

Notably, in In re BP PLC Securities Litigation, Pomerantz currently represents nearly three dozen institutional plaintiffs, including U.S. public and private pension funds, U.S. limited partnerships and ERISA trusts, and pension funds from Canada, the U.K., France, the Netherlands, and Australia for claims arising from the disastrous April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Lauren lives in Chattanooga, with her husband, Scott Phillips, who is a portfolio manager of the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund and author of the investing book, Buying at the Point Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture, 2010, FT Press, and co-author to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch, 2012, Templeton Press.

Alberta has a revenue problem and if we should have learned anything since the international price of oil collapsed in 2014, it is that we should not depend on royalty revenues from oil and gas to fund the day to day operations of our public services.

The Fund is back roughly to breakeven on its oil investments over the past 3 - 4 years, and continues to own a portfolio of stocks that will benefit from a rising oil price.

Oil finished higher Thursday for a second day, as traders worried that a potential U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the International Monetary Fund's threat to expel Venezuela, will lead to tighter global crude supplies.

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Shell Oil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas priceOil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas priceoil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas priceoil and natural gas prices).

Meanwhile, sovereign wealth funds in the UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are flush with cash from high oil prices and are on the lookout for attractively priced European assets.

Artist / designer Anthony Burill has come up with an interesting way to raise awareness and funds for the environmental damage on the Gulf Coast from this summer's oil spill.

The end user does not receive segregated sustainable palm oil, but it has directly funded an equivalent amount from an RSPO - certified producer.»

Over 30 trade - association led campaigns promoting everything from olive oil to fresh meat have been named the recipients of the latest round of EU funding for agri - food products.

Palm oil is the most used vegetable oil in the world, according to World Wildlife Fund, and is found in everything from ice cream to laundry detergent.

He will be playing UCL within a well oiled machine and will have all and more than we can give him (apart from harrods and a small portion of stans ranch funds).

I am a rich oil tycoon from Kazakstan, seeing the turmoil in the Arsenal board I have decided to mount a takeover bid, when appointed, I will sack Arsene Wenger who in turn will be replace by Billy Davies, who I think with the right club has the potential to be huge, we have drawn up a shortlist and have decided to purchase Turnble of Boro to replace Almunia, Bramble to replace Toure, Paul Scharner will replace Fabregas and Dean Windass for 25m to replace Adebayor these signing will be funded by the sales of Fabregas, Ade, RVP, Kolo Toure and the new captain will be Sendros!!!

The grant program began about 25 years ago when the National Park Service began setting aside money from off - shore oil leases and formed the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The Chavez approach — to raise taxes on oil companies and use a spike in energy prices to fund literacy and health programmes for the poor — prompted a hostile reaction from the Bush administration.

«From Republican Rep. Joe Barton, who apologized to BP for President Obama's «$ 20 billion shakedown» of the company, to GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul, who called President Obama's criticism of BP «un-American,» Harry Wilson, who comes from the world of unregulated hedge funds, now joins the pantheon of Big Oil defenders.&raFrom Republican Rep. Joe Barton, who apologized to BP for President Obama's «$ 20 billion shakedown» of the company, to GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul, who called President Obama's criticism of BP «un-American,» Harry Wilson, who comes from the world of unregulated hedge funds, now joins the pantheon of Big Oil defenders.&rafrom the world of unregulated hedge funds, now joins the pantheon of Big Oil defenders.»