I believe much of the recent market volatility really results from the second - and third - order effects
of lower commodity prices.
These gains have sustained, and — even now,
with lower commodity prices — our recycled plastic costs essentially the same as virgin plastic.
Because
current low commodity prices enable restaurants, manufacturers and suppliers to funnel working capital into their funds for new sourcing strategies in 2016.
While low commodity prices are putting the squeeze on margins and operating costs throughout the resource sector, some companies are tackling the problem head on — successfully.
It's among a host of new startups developing technology for the oil and gas industry, which finds itself desperate for innovation in this era
of low commodity prices.
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.
It «underlines the group's confidence that it can keep improving cash flows even in the current
lower commodity price environment,» Morgan Stanley analyst Menno Sanderse wrote in a report today.
Two weeks after Redford's remarks, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters lower government revenues follow
from lower commodity prices like «night follows the day,» meaning a hard line of spending as he approaches his own coming budget.
That higher - margin growth pushed the company's corporate margin up to $ 12.10 per BOE during the quarter, which is an increase of 25 % from the prior quarter
despite lower commodity prices.
Whoever wins the election faces an economy battered by
lower commodity prices for its main exports of rubber and iron ore, and a rapidly depreciating currency.
Varun Awtani, an analyst at India Ratings and one of the authors of the report, said factors such
as low commodity prices and regulatory delays affected indebted companies in these sectors.
69 % of respondents were extremely concerned over the lack of investment capital moving into the industry, whereas only 20 % were extremely concerned with facing
low commodities prices over the next two years.
The BOS indicator began to recover starting with the 2016 — 17 winter survey, as the complex adjustment of the Canadian economy to
low commodity prices slowly progressed.
By: Simone Liedtke 28th October 2016 More companies are considering the use of an independent power producer (IPP) to meet their mines» energy needs, as many projects are under pressure to achieve capital savings to weather the current operating environment
comprising low commodity prices and diminished revenue streams.
With respect to companies deleveraging, we will be following up after earnings season with a note on the current state of select company balance sheets and how sustainable they are
given lower commodity prices.
Adjustments are made over time and it appears the economy is close to having the initial (negative for growth) effects of
lower commodity prices behind it.
While we
believe lower commodity prices are a boon to the economy over time, the abruptness of their price decline and a lingering «commodity super-cycle» mentality likely caught many with more commodity inventory (acquired at higher prices) than proved desirable.
They included a drop in auction prices for dairy commodities such as bulk milk powder, butter and cheddar cheese in May and June 2015 and Murray Goulburn's experts
forecasting lower commodity prices for the 2016 financial year.
Gaining resources, increasing production capacity, and
low commodity prices keep these small farm operations from competing in the market.
According to Canada's central bank, this impact will continue to unfold, but that the negative impact of
lower commodity prices on North America's economy will eventually be balanced out by the positive impact that lower oil prices will have on real income.
Furthermore most DP (used in Rayon and other synthetic materials) is consumed in China which has their own high - cost mills and is looking into «dumping» by non Chinese manufacturers (perhaps as a way to support employment at home rather than
enjoy lower commodity prices).
For the oil and gas industry, how patent laws will deal with 3D printing technologies will also have a major impact on business, as companies faced with
low commodity prices look for cheaper ways of doing things.
Ongoing low commodities prices was behind a fall in AIM market listings to their lowest level since the height of the financial crisis, lawyers in the market have said.
Brazil also recognizes its current challenges:
historically low commodity prices, which undermine the country's resource - focused exports; and a currency that has depreciated compared to the U.S. dollar, making it difficult for Brazil and Brazilian businesses to service their debts.
This lack of capacity is no longer optional,
because low commodity prices and the steady decline in manufactured exports (due to competition from low - cost countries such as Mexico and China) have placed Canada at a competitive disadvantage.
Of course, a significant weakening of the global economy would result
in lower commodity prices and generally lower underlying inflation pressures.
He says investors are discouraged from investing in Canada by export pipeline constraints, as well
as lower commodity prices, higher taxes and a more onerous regulatory environment than in the U.S.
A weaker currency also is helping «absorb the impact
of lower commodity prices» and «facilitating the adjustments taking place in Canada's economy,» policy makers said.
Darren Woods, who has worked at Exxon for more than 20 years, has helped expand the refining business at a time when the company's core exploration and production business has been rocked
by low commodity prices.
Sharply lower commodity prices are now offering Canada an opportunity to push the reset button on an economy that's become distorted by an overdependence on resource markets.
However, the strong U.S. dollar and
low commodity prices over the past couple of years made financing such projects difficult for the B&R countries.
It's these costs that can sink a mining company in
a low commodity price environment.
Diversified miner Independence Group has booked a $ 58.8 million net loss for the 2016 financial year, on the back of acquisition costs and
lower commodity prices.
The water and waste group said its key French water business was boosted by new contract wins and better price indexations of its municipal water contracts, although waste revenue was down due to
lower commodities prices.
Ethanol demand has been vital to farmers who are buffeted by
low commodities prices and the threat of a global trade war.
The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with
lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.