Sentences with phrase «fuel hedging bets»

Poor fuel hedging bets and fierce competition from mainland Chinese and Middle Eastern rivals has hurt Cathay, pushing it into losses for the past two years and forcing the airline to undertake a three - year turnaround programme.

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Canada may be known as an old - guard, fossil - fuel powerhouse, but over the past few years it quietly has been hedging its bets.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which knocked off more than 20 percent of U.S. refinery capacity in the peak of refinery shutdowns, hedge funds are betting on a rise in fuel prices and have boosted their net long positions on U.S. gasoline and diesel to highs not seen for years.

Wall Street makes $ 9 bln helping pension funds lend stocks to fuel hedge - fund bets.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

Here's the reaction from Burton Richter, who is an emeritus professor of physics at Stanford University and author of a valuable book on energy, to my query about how society can best balance its research investments and hedge its bets in trying to move beyond fossil fuels:

I find the global warming arguments extremely compelling, but I notice something peculiar — that we seem to forget that long before «AGW» became a common topic, we saw many causes for alarm over the downside of doing so little to hedge our bets about energy sources, and back then we had little concept of the potential of China, e.g., to match and raise our own carbon fuel appetite.

While aggressively lobbying for an end to the ban on oil exports, fossil fuel companies hedged their bets by contributing millions of dollars to Super PACs dedicated to a Republican majority in the Senate.

The move, which follows Nike opening Nike + to HealthKit as well as the sports company hedges its bets in the health wearable space, will allow Android users to integrate their Fuel scores into an overall fitness plan.

Now, adding fuel to the fire, while investors expected OPEC to stabilize markets, as usual, the cartel announced after its November meeting that it would not cut supply to support prices and the Saudi oil minister stated there would be no intervention in oil markets even if prices dropped to $ 20 a barrel — at which point animal spirits and hedge funds betting on continued oil price increases wrested control from supply / demand fundamentals.