Sentences with phrase «in energy prices»

There is typically a six - month lag between declines in energy prices and an uptick in retail sales.

The positive headline inflation in the previous four months was mainly the contribution of the significant increases in energy prices in the related months.

A drop in energy prices helps nearly everyone, but it helps those at the bottom of the income scale a great deal more — which is good news.

As a recovering economy helped keep demand up, falling fuel costs helped utilities reduce their overall expenses and removed some of the pressure on margins that previous rises in energy prices brought.

In the future, the emphasis will be on changes in energy demand as determined by changes in energy prices.

In both cases, this primarily reflected recent falls in energy prices.

Inflation, meanwhile, was running at 3 % due to a spike in energy prices and food costs.

Net zero homeowners won't have to worry as much about fluctuations in energy prices or the harmful effects of fossil fuels.

Up to ten million households will struggle to afford another hike in energy prices, a new survey has revealed.

It is not just the rebound in energy prices pushing inflation higher.

Moreover, much of the weakness in energy prices has already been reflected in downward revisions to Canadian earnings, implying less pressure on forward - looking multiples.

A 3.0 % advance (1.1 % y / y) in energy prices led the increase in wholesale prices last month.

A 1 % rise in energy prices forces 40,000 households into fuel poverty.

The dramatic 2014 drop in energy prices shows the change over a year during which companies could not adjust their costs.

So far, only flexible resources have been able to take part in the energy price - setting process.

While the figures aren't what they were prior to the decline in energy prices, it does seem that sales have hit a bottom in 2016.

Businesses and households now also have to absorb a recent sharp further increase in energy prices.

The decline was due to a steep drop in energy prices.

I didn't say that the steep rise in energy prices had no impact on the economy.

Moreover, much of the weakness in energy prices has already been reflected in downward revisions to Canadian earnings, implying less pressure on forward - looking multiples.

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«Our commitment to net zero energy and renewable electricity provides protection against the anticipated rise in energy prices over the next decade, as well as sending an important message to our customers and other stakeholders about the benefits of upgrading existing facilities.»

The sharp decline in energy prices in January 2016 forced market participants to re-evaluate not only economic and stock market forecasts but the solvency concerns of a key sector.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

There are, I think, some valid fundamental reasons why we have seen a pullback in energy prices, but the selling in that sector has been so indiscriminate and across the board, in our view, based largely on fear or forced selling.

The Committee now states that, due to unforeseen increases in energy prices since 2008, it is likely that there will be significantly more households in fuel poverty in 2020 than previously envisaged.

His promise for a 20 - month freeze in energy prices signals something exciting for Westminster watchers: the development of a real gap in ideology between blue and red.

The recent prolonged downturn in energy prices, which has led to reduced demand for insurance among energy providers, coupled with anticipated relaxed enforcement efforts from the current administration in Washington D.C., is expected to put pressure on insurance carriers to loosen underwriting standards and expand the terms and conditions under which they offer coverage to energy companies.

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Real GD purchases treats the rise in energy prices as a real price increase to consumers, and so it rises at 0.2 % annualized.

While the company originally said in its earnings calls last year that it had not yet seen a cutback in demand for its products, its CEO said earlier this year that the sustained reduction in energy prices would make 2015 «a challenging year for our company» — so it seems the selloff may have been justified.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on the bearish draw down in crude inventories, and the action in energy prices.

The reacceleration in energy prices feeds into wages because there is no more room to run and nominal wages increase to keep real wages stable.

At dispute is an alleged deficit that amounts to less than two per cent of $ 630 billion (U.S.) in annual Canada-U.S. trade, and the final result can be made or broken by a small shift in energy prices and currency values.

KILDUFF: There «s a geopolitical risk premium in energy prices right now.

In addition to benefiting from some of the same forces that support emerging markets overall, we believe India's economy is turning the corner largely because of a two - year rout in energy prices.

The depth of the slump in energy prices was underlined by the fall in the US oil benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, which reached a 12 - year low of around US$ 26 per barrel in the second week of February.

What is lost in the media's attraction to headline news is the fact that China is still expanding at a rate 3x that of the U.S., and that with the decline in energy prices there is a positive economic outcome for users of that resource (businesses and consumers).

Led by a steep slide in energy prices over the last 12 months, the prices of a wide range of global commodities — everything from iron ore to sugar — has been falling lately, in part, due to slower demand from once red - hot developing economies...

While heartened by the bounce in oil prices after the multi-decade lows reached early in the year, any significant further rally in energy prices would seem to us to require a far more vibrant global economy.

Differences in energy prices across Europe depend on specific commercial agreements between companies (especially in the case of natural gas) and on infrastructures, far more than they depend on international markets regulation.

If Phil was interested in energy prices and energy policy he would not have walked into this trap... the man is taking money fronting for pipeline interests!

Consumers, rather than following the lead of the mass market media who were telling them that the fall in energy prices presented a tax cut for them to spend, have elected to save for a rainy day.

«The MPC still expects inflation to peak above 3.0 % in October, as the past depreciation of sterling and recent increases in energy prices continue to pass through to consumer prices.

In summary, the reason the 3.3 % real GDP number looks weird is that imports have a negative weight in the GD Product price index, so a large move up in energy prices (largely imported) makes the GDP product price index go down, and real GDP go up.

A significant surge in energy prices or decline in employment levels could derail what looks to be shaping up as a happier holiday for retailers.