Increased demand for crops to make fuel results in
higher global commodity prices that can induce farmers in other countries to plow up new ground, including sensitive, high - carbon ecosystems such as tropical forests in South America and Southeast Asia or peatland in Southeast Asia.
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.
While fluctuations in the
global price of coffee on the
commodity markets led industry behemoth Starbucks to boost its per - cup
price tag last month, a growing share of consumer dollars are going to
higher - cost specialty or craft coffee.
Its relatively
high global position reflects the special place the Australian dollar holds in portfolios of international funds managers because of its relation to
commodity prices, offering a degree of diversification from other currencies.
For decades, we have been living off unsustainably
high commodity prices, particularly for oil and gas, at the expense of innovation and
global competitiveness.
Global equity sentiment remains a bit shaky as concerns over rising
commodity prices and
higher interest rates continue to suggest lower corporate margins for the...
Global equity sentiment remains a bit shaky as concerns over rising
commodity prices and
higher interest rates continue to suggest lower corporate margins for the remainder of 2018.
But the New Zealand dairy giant's chief executive Theo Spierings, said this was too
high and did not reflect a collapse of
global prices for key dairy
commodities.
Merricks Capital, which specialises in soft
commodities, helped to create derivative contracts with the major US hamburger companies to allow them to hedge the cost of Australian beef while allowing them to profit from anomalies in
global beef
prices, such as the perceived
high price of Australian cattle.
The majority of internationally traded
commodity dairy products traded in the latest Fonterra
Global Dairy Trade auction event sold for
higher prices, arresting a series of
price slides dating back to December 6.
Despite the more difficult
global environment, with lower
commodity prices and domestic power shortages, economic growth in 2015 was close to 4 percent, slightly
higher than expected.
Higher commodity prices and an improving
global economy have pushed up the
prices of many junior mining stocks recently.
With yield an ever - scarcer
commodity, relatively
high rates that U.S. bonds offer alongside a strong U.S. dollar are attracting
global capital flows and pushing bond
prices higher and yields lower.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx [2] «Rice yields decline with
higher night temperature from
global warming» www.pnas.org/content/101/27/9971.full [3] «This paper concludes that a stronger link between energy and nonenergy
commodity prices is likely to be the dominant influence on developments in
commodity, and especially food, markets.»