Sentences with phrase «higher commodity prices»

According to recent media reports, economists are also expecting an improved economy, boosted by higher commodity prices and stronger global demand and rebounds in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.

The companies will still provide a hedge against inflation as their sales increase on higher commodity prices and you will earn a dividend yield while you hold the shares.

Some people stop the story there and conclude that the only people who benefit from high commodity prices are those who work in the resource sector, but this is obviously an incomplete analysis.

Given higher commodity prices, mining could be viable, he added.

For years, the Russian economy enjoyed stable growth rates supported by high commodity prices — oil and gas, in particular.

We've benefited from higher commodity prices but most importantly delivered a solid operating performance.

This is a better way of thinking about the effects of higher commodity prices than in terms of the exchange rate.

Canada, goes the conventional wisdom, was prudent with its banks, and — let's say it — lucky with high commodity prices.

U.K. shares recovered from early losses to trade marginally higher on Thursday as higher commodity prices helped lift mining and energy stocks and the pound weakened slightly after the release of disappointing services sector data.

Others expect that gradually firming demand will allow them to pass on some cost increases, such as higher commodity prices, to their customers.

«Healthy consumer spending and higher commodity prices spooked the bond markets and led to higher mortgage rates over the past week,» he said.

Canada hasn't seen a gain like that since 2011, when high commodity prices helped the country forget the Great Recession.

For one, there has not been the increase in metals supply you would expect with sustained high commodity prices, because it simply takes so long to discover new deposits and then to permit, finance and develop new mines.

If high commodity prices and Canadians» open wallets pulled the country through the start of the recession, the government's stimulus package will be the «bridge» that gets the country back on the road to growth, says Antunes.

Amid generally high commodity prices, they have been extracting more dollars for their products and collecting higher profits: realized net farm income stood at $ 4.5 billion in 2010, up 46 % from the previous year.

so now the issue is whether the bond market (or macro hedge funds) eased too much thinking the Fed would choke off liquidity and now is staring at still a weaker dollar and high commodity prices indicating an elevated level of excess liquidity.

For decades, we have been living off unsustainably high commodity prices, particularly for oil and gas, at the expense of innovation and global competitiveness.

Higher commodity prices pose yet another challenge for established food names struggling to remain top choices for shoppers and convince Wall Street that their best days are still ahead.

Teck Resources took full advantage of higher commodity prices earlier this year to pay off a big chunk of the debt that had been weighing it down.

Hence, nominal unit labour costs in Australia increased by around 25 per cent relative to our trading partners over this same period, contributing noticeably to the decline in competiveness (outside of the resources sector, which benefited from much higher commodity prices).

NEW YORK, April 18 Shares of Alcoa, Steel Dynamics and Nucor have risen this week, ahead of earnings and boosted by higher commodity prices following sanctions on Russia's UC Rusal and U.S. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, and investors are keen for more details on the impact of these political measures.

Strong corporate earnings supported equity markets which saw most US equities nudge higher.But with signs, the synchronised global growth is reverting to a synchronised slowdown amidst rising US interests rates and higher commodity prices make for convincing argument profit margins are cresting.

Oil commodity prices also weakened in March, which hurt the performance of our energy holdings during the quarter, but we believe supply - and - demand dynamics will lead to higher commodity price trends over the long term.

The Regional Economic Outlook calls attention on the global economic growth, sluggish growth recovery in the sub-region, the relative higher commodity prices in the region and the need for improved market accessibility.

Most economists are predicting sluggish growth to linger well into next year, with persistently high commodity prices.

While higher commodity prices and cooperatively owned ethanol refineries could be a boon to independent farmers, unregulated ethanol industry growth will further concentrate agribusiness, threatening the livelihood of rural communities.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

Sharply higher commodity prices, combined with resumption of agricultural lending and recovery of the Amazon cattle herd, will challenge efforts to reduce deforestation next year.

Healthy consumer spending and higher commodity prices spooked the bond markets and led to higher mortgage rates over the past week.

The effects of the increase in the cash rate and appreciation of the Australian dollar were more obvious in the non-mining sectors of the economy, such as the tourism industry, which were not directly benefiting from higher commodity prices.

Also helped by high commodity prices and favorable terms of trade, writes De Gregorio, «these countries had the policy space and better policy frameworks to conduct expansionary policies once the crisis began», thereby lessening its effects.

Historically, the Canadian dollar tends to appreciate with higher commodity prices, as Canada is largely a resource - based economy.

That said, Carney makes the point early on that, although the net effect of higher commodity prices is positive, that doesn't mean there are no costs:

With that in mind, Morgan Stanley makes the important distinction that the headwinds facing today's market — increasing valuations, rising inflation, tightening policy, higher commodity prices, and more volatility — are all normal hallmarks of a late - cycle environment.

Our response to higher commodity prices was the logical one: shift investment toward the resource sector and away from other industries, manufacturing in particular.

But global instability, high commodity prices and low interest rates mean costs are continuing to edge upward.

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.

«Rising equities, rising inflation, tightening policy, higher commodity prices and higher volatility are (in our view) a pretty normal pattern if that view is correct.»

The statement attributed the gain to higher commodity prices and shifting expectations of when the U.S. Federal Reserve will next raise its benchmark interest rate.

«Higher commodity prices and a solid operating performance delivered free cash flow of US$ 4.9 billion.

A change in management, a big change in the industry, higher commodity prices, a regulatory change — all of these things can turn a value trap into a great investment.

We benefited from strong productivity growth, higher commodity prices and more of the population working.

Although the resulting upward pressure on the Canadian dollar served as a drag on domestic growth, the effects of this headwind were more than offset by the positive effects of stronger U.S. demand for our exports, higher asset prices, higher commodity prices and an improvement in our terms of trade.

Overall, inflation expectations are marginally higher than in the winter survey: higher commodity prices and expected inflationary pressures in the United States are viewed as contributing to domestic inflation over the next two years.

Firms anticipate that higher commodity prices will add to cost growth.

High commodity prices and resource - hungry foreign investors are pumping money into countries like Angola, Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt.