We've essentially traveled full circle back to the halcyon days of
global government price controls / fixing — except this time» round we've achieved it on a far grander scale, in effect compressing decades into mere years.
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of
global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of
global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future
pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase
price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other
governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign
government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Global miner Barrick Gold has announced a deal with the Tanzanian
government that involves a 50:50 sharing of benefits from its operations in the country, prompting sharp
price movements in local stocks exposed to the region.
Rogoff said that
government regulation would be a trigger for the drop in bitcoin
prices, although he stressed that it would take time to develop a
global framework of regulation.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and
government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and
price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain
global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other
government action that could have the effect of lowering
prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock
price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and
Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese
government that has rendered China - made products more
price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.
For true believers, it's not just about the
price of a single investment, but instead a system that they believe could circumvent traditional
governments by creating a decentralized,
global financial system that no single entity oversees.
They can't win votes saying they'll bring up the
global price of crude any more than they can make the unemotional economist's argument, that anything but the most interventionist
government action won't do much to help short - term job prospects.
At Shell we have decided to work on and implement various CCS projects, and we don't wait for
government frameworks,
global CO2
pricing mechanisms.
But today's
price divergence reminds us that Bitcoin's fixed number of coins was designed and intended to be independent of
global government policies that create excess debt or excessive expansion that results increased inflationary expectations.
The story does not end with EV subsidies either as Tesla has provided very generous residual buyback programs in key
global markets like Hong Kong, which has very generous
government incentives at the front end (fully detailed in the legacy post below) putting a Tesla Model S
pricing nearly on top of a gas powered Honda Civic and well below a Mercedes entry model.
But China has long been criticized by analysts, industry groups and
government officials in the U.S. and Europe for dumping cheaply produced steel and aluminum on
global markets at rock bottom
prices.
* Energy markets * China
government reorg * China economy * The Inflationary Impact of Ageing * Our Brave New World * Kings of Content * Canadian banks * Grocery
price comps * HD vs LOW * Disney and Fox * Bank of Ozark * Demographics * Bitcoin * Rethinking Transportation 2020 - 2030 * Internet trends *
Global markets outlook * Good research: Canadian Banks, Citigroup * Regime change to lead to lower returns?
It ended disastrously because his
government allowed Big Oil to make the
government the scapegoat when oil
prices dropped in response to
global market forces.
* China
government reorg * China economy * The Inflationary Impact of Ageing * Our Brave New World * Kings of Content * Canadian banks * Grocery
price comps * HD vs LOW * Disney and Fox * Bank of Ozark * Demographics * Bitcoin * Rethinking Transportation 2020 - 2030 * Internet trends *
Global markets outlook * Good research: Canadian Banks, Citigroup * Regime change to lead to lower returns?
Dec 28 Indian shares were little changed on Thursday ahead of expiry of derivatives contracts and on lingering concerns over
government borrowing exceeding target, but metals stocks such as Vedanta Ltd rose tracking
global commodity
prices.
In the last few years we've had a housing bubble, a credit bubble, runaway
government spending, soaring gas
prices, a
global recession, high unemployment, the risk of a U.S. debt default, a fiscal crisis in Europe, and the threat of severe inflation.
These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including
global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing
prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants,
global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in
government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.
Furthermore, with slower
global economic growth in the years ahead due to the U.S. consumer saving spree, worldwide financial deleveragings, low commodity
prices, increased
government regulation and protectionism, excess
global capacity will probably be a chronic problem.
The
government had between November 2014 and January 2016 raised excise duty on petrol by Rs 11.77 a litre and that on diesel by Rs 13.47 per litre to take away gains arising from plummeting
global oil
prices.
Using
global industrial production growth as specified, annual total returns for 30 country, two regional and world stock indexes, currency spot and one - year forward exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar, spot
prices on 19 commodities, total annual returns for a
global government bond index and a U.S. corporate bond index, and country inflation rates as available during 1970 through 2013, they find that: Keep Reading
The
government is in a bind in terms of what can be done, however, considering the structure of processing companies and the state of the
global milk market, with
government sources instead suggesting farmers should push for greater transparency in negotiations between their processors and supermarkets on
prices.
In fact the
government pays farmers both the real end -
price of their products plus a subsidy, and this raises the guaranteed purchase
price compared with the
global prices of agricultural products.
The
Government tries to blame
global forces — Euro zone weakness, and the impact of higher oil and food
prices worldwide.
In the light of the crash in
global crude oil
price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the
government.
The Federal
Government has warned that Nigeria will begin feeling the impact of the declining
price of crude oil in the
global market from this November...
He lamented over what he regarded as era of extinction of crude oil in the world, saying the sharp drop in the
global prices of crude oil was a signal to the fact that
government at all levels need to shift face to agriculture.
Add to this the terrible state of the economy that Buhari inherited, headlined by a collapse in
global crude oil
prices, our main export earner, and the rapacious emptying of the national treasury by previous
governments, and you have a seething, discontented people.
The Federal
Government has made known its intention to cut subsidies on petroleum products by half next year after sharp falls in
global crude
prices led...
Annual
global Leaf sales needed to lower the
price and achieve a profit without
government subsidies: 1 million
The US Fed indicated further moves would be dependent on
global factors and oil
prices — a key detail signifying that future rate hikes seem likely to develop on a slower scale, causing a European
government bond market rally on Thursday, sending yields lower in the region.
Sources: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) US 10 - year Treasury constant maturity, 1962 — 2017;
Global Financial Data (GFD), 1919 — 1962; yields implied by GFD monthly
price returns for 10 - year US
government bond, 1899 — 1919
I find a much tighter spread in
global timberland
pricing (vs. farmland)--
government «intervention «affects farmland far more!
«In part, the
global economic slowdown has helped to instigate this change, with the high ticket
price of long - haul first - class seating proving to be in stark contrast to cost - cutting measures implemented by
governments around the world»
«In part, the
global economic slowdown has helped to instigate this change, with the high ticket
price of long - haul first - class seating proving to be in stark contrast to cost - cutting measures implemented by
governments around the world,» said Heath Lockett, senior analyst, aerospace electronics at IHS.
An essay by Sarah Johnstone and Jeffrey Mazo entitled,
Global Warming and Arab Spring, draws a convincing line that the pressure on food
prices was a contributor to the start of the revolutions of the Arab Spring — the tumultuous uprising against many Arab
governments.
So it turns out that the answer to our confusion (see earlier post) of how the
government proposed to hike up taxes and keep fuel
prices even was that they would adjust the base fuel
price downward, predicated on the recent plummet of
global crude
prices.
That's why, the ministry says, the federal
government agreed with the 2011 Energy Package to introduce compensatory arrangements for businesses competing at a
global level, including measures to offset increases in the
price of power stemming from the EU's carbon emissions trade, and a cap on their renewables allocation charge.
The
global gas revolution is poised to significantly raise bills for Australian households and some gas - using businesses, but
government should resist calls to intervene to keep
prices low, according to...
«More than two dozen of the nation's biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the
government will force them to pay a
price for carbon pollution as a way to control
global warming.»
Earlier this month, investors handling trillions of dollars a year called on
governments to establish a stable system for
global carbon
pricing.
Governments representing almost half of the world's population and 52 percent of
global GDP have thrown their weight behind a
price on carbon as a necessary, if insufficient, solution to climate change and a step on the path to low carbon growth.»
Innovate4Climate, launched in 2017 in Barcelona, is an integral part of this
global dialogue of
government, multilateral, business, banking, finance, technology leaders and society and embraces the
global themes of climate finance, sustainable development, carbon
pricing and markets.
Beyond high food
prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008)
Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the
global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.
... it is disingenuous to seek to pin the blame on
government policies using inflated assessments of their impacts while ignoring the main driver for
price increases — rising
global fossil fuel
prices.
In a joint post the heads of the IMF and the World Bank have called for some form of
global carbon
pricing: «The transition to a cleaner future will require both
government action and the right incentives for the private sector.
Germany, along with Canada, California, and other national and subnational
governments, is a key member of the Carbon
Pricing Leadership Coalition, a voluntary partnership formed to advance the long - term objective of a carbon
price applied throughout the
global economy.
When there is an increasing
global trend of
governments, industry and business working together to
price carbon and reduce emissions, the absence of a legislated carbon
price in Australia is disappointing.
The event convened
government, businesses, researchers and academia to discuss a pathway towards decarbonization, as all actors play their part to build
global partnerships that facilitate structural transformation and technological innovation, seek continuous improvement of climate policy and establish strong economic mechanisms, such as carbon
pricing, that will build a low - carbon economy.
But that is too high a
price to pay in part due to the uncertainty over what federal and state
governments will do to reduce carbon emissions to combat
global warming, the spokesman explained.