Sentences with phrase «global commodity demand»

The Chinese economy continued to grow at a rapid pace over 2003, providing considerable impetus to the rest of the region, and boosting global commodity demand.

A slowdown in China's economic growth and, by extension, much tamer global commodity demand, presents Canada with both a challenge and an opportunity.

If global commodity demand dips — something that looks increasingly likely — you could kiss today's predictions of razor thin GDP growth goodbye.

Their contribution to global commodity demand is far from played out.

Not exact matches

In the days to come the Fed will have to prove that a new set of tools for managing interest rates will work as expected; see how higher U.S. rates affect domestic and global financial conditions; and hope that weak world demand and commodity prices do not lead to an overall bout of deflation and force the Fed to reverse course.

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Ethanol demand has been vital to farmers who are buffeted by low commodities prices and the threat of a global trade war.

«Shifts in global financial architecture and regulations, commodity demand and availability, environmental cataclysm, the fickleness of geopolitics — and, yes, human caprice — will all play a hand, in unexpected ways.

The investor noted Tuesday that global growth is causing demand for commodities, while the weaker U.S. dollar should also help.

With global synchronized growth underway and demand outstripping supply in a number of cases, not to mention the U.S. dollar in decline and inflation on the rise, commodities are poised to be among the best performing asset classes in 2018.

Rapid demand growth; commodity price volatility; the influence of a broad range of global conditions on wages: all these factors can trigger large changes in relative prices, and this makes the job of capturing underlying inflation harder.

These include the general background of strong demand and tight capacity, as well as rises in global commodity prices that have added to business input costs.

The concerted weakening in commodity prices already suggests a global force to this economic downturn, while further weakness in the U.S. dollar would suggest that demand for U.S. goods and securities was softening even more sharply than internationally.

This was because global demand for these commodities increased significantly and supply was unable to keep up.

The ongoing surge in demand, which has put an end to a long - lasting commodity bear market that began in 2011, also helped the asset class to occasionally decouple from broad selloffs in challenging global equity markets.

Food prices aside, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that commodity prices overall have been rising because global demand has been strong.

For most countries individually, it is plausible to argue that the rise in a wide range of commodity prices is exogenous — even if it is driven by global demand, our own contribution to that demand is small.

Commodities were nonetheless facing some complex challenges, including a risk of expanding US / China trade sanctions that could limit global trade and growth, as well as a softening of select economic data that may have implied demand growth could be somewhat disappointing for commodities and limit further pCommodities were nonetheless facing some complex challenges, including a risk of expanding US / China trade sanctions that could limit global trade and growth, as well as a softening of select economic data that may have implied demand growth could be somewhat disappointing for commodities and limit further pcommodities and limit further price gains.

Demand for jet fuel has increased over the last two years as the global economy has strengthened and airplane passenger traffic has risen, said Sandy Fielden, director of oil and products research at Morningstar Commodities in Austin, Texas.

Lackluster global economic growth in 2014 and 2015 correspondingly reduced the demand for a wide range of commodities, including oil.

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 global industry is worth $ 225 - billion a year, with the demand for iron - ore larger than any other commodity, excluding oil and gas.

Oil is, without a doubt, the most vital commodity to the global economy today and is always in demand.

The slow global growth, and the weak demand are also long - term challenges for the commodity and we don't expect a major move above the prior highs at $ 54.

Natural gas futures allow investors the opportunity to trade in one of the hottest, most in - demand energy commodities in the global economy today — a commodity that is likely to continue to increase in value as the years go by.

While global central banks attempt to reflate their respective economies, the heady days of 2006 or 2010 for commodity demand appear to be a thing of the past for now.

Japan's economic revival will lead to greater growth in Canada's exports, add to global demand for our commodities, create new opportunities for value chain partnerships in Asia and beyond through Japanese companies, and increase the choice...

Bank revenues from commodities trading have soared since 2003, fueled by increasing global demand from emerging markets like China and India, requiring more oil, metal and raw materials.

Rapid growth in global steel demand has also boosted contract prices for other bulk commodities; coking coal contract prices increased, on average, by 25 — 35 per cent in US dollar terms in recent negotiations, while iron ore contract prices have risen by close to 20 per cent.

Growth in Australia's export volumes has remained weak over the past year or so, despite strong growth in global demand and world commodity prices, with total exports virtually unchanged from four years ago (Graph 31).

The decline in mining investment has been, in part, a reaction to declining production and profits, caused by falling global demand and lower commodity prices during 1998 and early 1999.

Commodity prices in SDR terms remain on a firm upward trend, buoyed by the global economic recovery and the associated pick - up in demand for raw materials.

Demand has suffered as global growth has slowed, particularly from commodity - intensive emerging markets.

But no sooner had China's industrial base started to show some positive effects from the pickup in global commodity prices — which has allowed its factories to push through some price increases after many years of producer price deflation — than several of the industrial materials most reliant on Chinese demand started to come under pressure during April.

What if a recovery in global economic growth drives demand for commodities and higher inflation?

The global pick - up in demand and activity has generated strong upward pressure on a range of commodity prices over recent months, notably for oil, gold, base metals and a number of rural commodities.

Increases in global commodity prices, combined with strong demand conditions domestically and capacity constraints in some parts of the economy, have contributed to significant upstream price pressures in Australia during the past year.

At the same time, emerging markets, which have been adjusting for the past four years amid slack commodity prices and weak global demand, are also in recovery mode.

The combined effects of falling commodity prices, weak global demand for exports and soft internal demand have led to year - over-year (YOY) declines in the gross domestic products (GDPs) of the largest Asian economies.

The thesis is that the global economy has shifted into high - growth mode and therefore the demand for commodities will rebound as inflation finally begins to take hold and central banks accelerate interest rate hikes.

A particular feature of the world economy in this episode is that commodity prices, led by Chinese demand, have risen sharply at a relatively early stage of the global expansion.

With the health of global manufacturing trending up, we see commodities demand following suit in the coming months.

Despite a persistent degree of consumer caution and a competitive retail environment, Australia's economic outlook over the coming 12 months will experience modest improvements due to lift in global trade, China's demand for commodities, tourism and growth in Australian household wealth.

«The continued expansion of world demand, resulting from global population and economic growth and increasing preference for dairy products are expected to be the main drivers, fuelling EU exports and sustaining commodity prices,» said the EC report.

The fund, managed by rural property veteran David Bryant, also grew distributions by 4 per cent to 8.92 cents in FY16 (a yield of about 5.4 per cent) as it benefited from rising global demand for the commodities its properties produce, the increasing scale and value of its portfolio and growing appetite for agribusiness from big institutional investors.

The company said it represented strong performance in the context of low global dairy commodity prices, significant increase in global dairy production and continuing sanctions in Russia affecting global supply and demand.

It notes that increased northern hemisphere production is outweighing any recovery in global demand, forcing international commodity prices lower.

Nevertheless, looking ahead to 2011 the prospects for Irish food and drink exports remain positive, helped by strong global demand for commodity products and a relatively tight supply situation in a number of key product categories.

The Victorian co-operative's managing director, Gary Helou, said strong global demand for dairy commodities had helped drive a $ 207 million rise in half - year revenue to $ 1.24 billion.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says there is less global demand for commodities, including dairy.