Sentences with phrase «in energy prices led»

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

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Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

«In recent quarters, weaker foreign demand has dampened business investment, and low oil prices have weighed on energy - related investment, both of which have typically led to slower PDFP growth.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

This could lead to select opportunities among Energy, Technology, and Financials stocks in the U.S.. However, any notable economic improvements could close the window on such opportunities, and lead to higher short - term interest rates in the U.S. sooner than is currently priced into the markets.

That lower baseline energy demand as well as marginal increases in supplies has led to lower global oil and gas prices and more competitive pressure on the uranium space.

Tudor (Tudor, Pickering, Holt and Co., an energy investment bank) analysts said in Friday research note that part of steep drop in prices could be attributed to trading algorithms in the market, which can lead to widespread sell - offs once prices reach a specific threshold».

The producer - price index, reflecting how much firms pay for everything from paper to trucks, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 % from November, led by a jump in energy costs, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

This could be positive for a commodity price (such as in Oil), as the increased economic activity will likely lead to greater sales of energy products.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

The five leading price performers (Patterson - UTI Energy, Lear, Bruker, Crane and TD Ameritrade) are all smaller holdings in the Fund, meaning that their outsized price increases did not make them leading contributors.

High oil prices may well lead to a collapse in demand over the long term, resulting in a speeding up of the energy transition that most experts see on the horizon

For example, higher oil prices in the past have led to breakthrough innovations in alternative energy.

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 pledge to freeze energy prices received wide support in post-election polling, and when it comes to which party would be better at increasing people's living standards, Miliband and his party have a lead (albeit, a narrow two - point one) over Cameron and the Conservatives.

We need a # 110bn investment in our energy infrastructure, and a failure to invest now will lead to an increased dependence on imported fossil fuels, which are subject to volatile price spikes and security of supply issues.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

Leading politicians debate climate change, energy prices and the countryside in a Daily Politics election debate.

Iran has the fourth largest proven oil reserves in the world, according to the US Energy Information Agency and any additional oil would add to the one million barrels a day of over-supply that has led to a more than 70 % collapse in oil prices since the middle of 2014.

But the script accuses Higgins of being «so detached from reality that while families in New York are forced to pay more than $ 3.70 a gallon, Higgins has been in Washington supporting big - government policies that lead to higher gas prices and restrain the production of American - made energy.»

This includes 25 % of the British energy sector, and the move to privatise energy has led to a 10 - 20 % increase in energy prices.

Peter Atherton, a leading energy analyst, warned last week that investment in power generation was «killed stone dead» until the next election by Ed Miliband's call for a price freeze and government delays in introducing promised electricity market reform.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

Those kinds of prices, guaranteed for between 10 and 20 years, have helped fuel a surge in renewable energy development in Japan, leading to the addition of nearly 11,000 MW of solar capacity since 2012 while an additional 72,000 MW remains in the development pipeline, according to METI estimates.

Our aim was to explore the longer - term impacts of completely different oil price futures, in terms of the future energy mix and carbon emissions,» says IIASA energy researcher David McCollum, who led the study.

The nation's feed - in tariffs guarantee 25 years of up to triple the market price for solar energy, making it the world's hottest solar market, trailing only subsidy - richer Germany as well as the U.S. with its historical lead in developing solar technology.

Arvato increased its revenues noticeably, but higher prices for energy and paper as well as start - up costs for new projects led to a decline in operating EBIT.

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.

With inflation expectations well anchored, a one - time increase in energy prices should not lead to a permanent increase in inflation but only to a change in relative prices.»

Markets were mixed on Wednesday and then surged higher in afternoon trading, led by the energy sector as oil prices rose following President Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

I'll increase their P / E to 14, but the continued Energy - led decline in their operating margin (to a likely 1.8 %) now deserves a 0.175 Price / Sales ratio (plus a small / positive debt adjustment to reflect further acquisition capacity).

Oh, and a high oil price will be a wonderful lead - in to plenty of new guff about America's energy policy (apologies, this implies there is one...)-- perfect!

So, a large rise in oil / energy prices leads to a decrease in the deflator, leading to higher «real» GDP.

International equity markets posted a positive return in April, led by energy stocks as oil prices continued to rise over the month.

And it involves investments in renewable energy, which will probably lead to higher electricity prices.

My guess would be that's something like the current price for doing all the needed load balancing with contemporary lead - acid battery storage, counting ramping up the lead industry to satisfy the sourcing and management of that much lead and sulfuric acid — in other words, it's somebody saying «it would cost the Earth * to do that» as an argument that there will be no progress in energy storage, so it'd be a waste to build more renewables.

Of course, in the long run, «all of the above» just leads to lower energy prices which leads to greater consumption of fossil fuels.

Just in case Romm and Robert Collier, the «leading journalist and climate expert» heavily cited in Romm's California post, are tempted to criticize Price as an energy Charlie Sheen, they should note that his co-authors on the new study include several analysts at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the federal research hub that Collier called «the Vatican of energy efficiency work.»

The improvements in solar technology over the last few years have led to massive price reductions in mobile charging devices, and now, instead of being a marginal (and expensive) portable energy solution, they're rapidly becoming a must - have for anyone who spends time off the grid or who wants their gizmos to be powered with renewable energy.

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As fossil fuel prices rise, the need for energy efficiency in achieving both is increasingly leading Irish people to an approach which combines both ventilation and heating,

In addition to its positive impact in utility prices, new and improved energy infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowIn addition to its positive impact in utility prices, new and improved energy infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowin utility prices, new and improved energy infrastructure will help our nation continue leading the world in the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowin the production of oil and natural gas and in the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lowin the reduction of carbon emissions, which are near 20 - year lows.

South Australia has the highest prices and the least stable energy system in the country and, despite the bravado in the lead - up to summer, their energy problems remain.

European «feed - in tariffs,» which guarantee a profitable selling price for renewable energy, have led to a dramatic expansion of the solar and wind industries in Portugal, Spain, and Germany.

«I think that those folks who may not be paying attention to energy as much and what» s going on in their region, they may not be understanding how you could link that more infrastructure actually would lead to lower prices.

Last week we made the point that America's ongoing energy revolution is the main reason the United States is the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas — a renaissance that is reducing oil imports and benefiting consumers in the form of lower prices at the pump.

«Kennedy Phase I is a first - of - its - kind project in Australia, and it will lead the nation in the deployment of innovative, high reliability renewable energy capable of closely matching network power demand,» said Windlab CEO Roger Price.

IEA Executive Director briefs Japanese PM ahead of G7 summit Address to council led by Shinzo Abe focuses on effects of low energy prices and cuts in investment 21 April 2016

Past and present Energy Ministers in the Wynne - led government would probably claim the deeply discounted sale price for those exported MWh was actually a «profit» but most ratepayers recognize that claim to be untrue.