Sentences with phrase «of commodities business»

I'm fully aware of the cyclical nature of the commodities business, but clearly the greater the bull market, the more severe the bear market.

It ditched much of its commodities business — a unit now causing headaches for Goldman.

Morgan Stanley's review of its commodities business comes as rivals including Deutsche Bank AG and Barclays PLC have pulled back from the sector.

Robinson broke out of the commodity business by offering such unexpected extras as 68 colors, state - of - the - art delivery technology that makes same - day delivery possible, and responsive field service.

Even by the standards of the commodity business (and the commodity trading business in particular) Glencore is known for its appetite for political and legal risk, and its willingness to deal with sketchy counterparties.

These competitors will drive down the incumbent business's profits until its ROIC declines to the average return of a commodity business.

Not exact matches

Owning so many of the logistical control points of the pulse trade is a core part of AGT's competitive advantage in what is otherwise a low - margin commodity business.

For a business exposed to the ups and downs of commodity prices and the costs of the manufacturing sector, Civmec has had a good year.

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

Brand loyalty is a priceless commodity when you're taking the crucial business step of building a successful brand.

The rising dollar forced management to re-evaluate how much the company should deal in the commodity side of business.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

His clients include executives and business leaders in a broad range of industries, including all varieties of financial services (securities and commodities trading and sales, banking, investment and hedge funds), automobile manufacturing and sales, professional sports agency, pharmaceuticals, and high technology.

Any commodities business comes with some volatility — the oil and gas business has had a tough couple of years amid low energy prices.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

In the span of a few months the company announced that it would acquire both AOL and Yahoo as it works to load its formidable network still the most comprehensive and widespread in the U.S. with content in a bid to keep a highly competitive (and highly lucrative) market from turning into a commodity business.

Small businesses were a much sought - after commodity during 2017, with the number of sales transactions rising more than 26 percent from the previous year.

HOUSTON, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

Managing directors in charge of different commodities businesses recently sent strategic business plans to Simon Greenshields in New York and Colin Bryce in London, who jointly run Morgan Stanley's commodity business globally, as well as Colm Kelleher, who runs the broader institutional securities business, two people familiar with the matter said.

HOUSTON, Feb 27 - Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

HOUSTON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 - Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

HOUSTON / NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Global commodity trader Koch Supply & Trading has cut dozens of workers across at least four offices worldwide, several sources said on Tuesday, as the firm restructures its business.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- A group of small brokerages and large commodities companies convinced lawmakers to tweak a rule that they say would have made derivatives trading more expensive for them and sent more business to Wall Street banks that already dominate the market.

But it was the fixed income, currencies and commodities business that dominated, taking up nine of the 24 pages.

A series of letters between JPMorgan's lawyers and the Fed, released to Reuters through a Freedom of Information Act request, show Wall Street's primary regulator took a tough stance on the bank's efforts to hold onto the global network of Henry Bath & Sons warehouses, part of the larger RBSSempra commodity trading business it bought in mid-2010.

«In commodity businesses where there's usually easy substitution, that's amazing to have that kind of difference in price per Btu,» he explained.

The Fed had already ordered the previous owner, Edinburgh - based Royal Bank of Scotland, to get out of the business of owning commodities storage.

According to the survey, the top concerns of small business owners over the next year are the effectiveness of government leaders, commodities prices, healthcare costs, recovery of consumer spending and the strength of the U.S. dollar.

Oil, of course, is a globally traded commodity, and those new costs of doing business will in time be passed on to consumers.

The irony is that the energies of globalization and growth in demand for key commodities are driving more businesses to contemplate ventures in politically closed countries, particularly China.

When commodities prices plummeted, so did the fortunes of businesses that dealt in them — including Pennzoil, which Pate joined in 1976.

After announcing in December 2013 that it would shed $ 5 billion worth of its commodity chemical business, Dow Chemical (DOW) will have to figure that out.

«As the business cycle deepens and inflationary concerns push interest rates higher, cross-asset correlations with commodities decline and the diversification benefits of owning commodities rises with higher rates.»

«In fact one reason why we set up the business in 1929 is [because] tea is one of the global commodities that didn't come under big pricing pressure.

With Russo, he runs a business that generated $ 5.3 billion in revenues in the first nine months of the year, putting it on a par with the fixed income, currencies, and commodities unit.

Together with Daffey, he runs a business that generated $ 5.3 billion in revenue in the first nine months of the year, putting it on a par with the fixed income, currencies, and commodities unit.

Between online ordering (fewer store visits), automated home replenishment of commodities (ditto) and in - store pickup combined with self - service checkout and kiosk deliveries, the chewing gum business is in the toilet and impulse sales at the register (candy, necessities and magazines) overall are plummeting.

In July, when the Bank of Canada cut its policy to its current setting of 0.5 %, policy makers expressed concern over weak non-energy exports and a deep contraction in business investment brought on by the collapse of commodity prices.

The opportunity for the Calgary - based company, which produces about 5 % of the gas in North America, is not so much to grow demand of a commodity, but to develop new business lines around these new applications.

Now that the commodity business is small and the engineered business is large, a much larger percentage of the total, the impact on the overall number is very positive because as Exa doubles, that's going to move the needle dramatically.

In its trading business, income from its markets business decreased 4 percent to 1.35 billion pounds, as macro income fell 14 percent due to a weaker performance by its U.S. rates business and the impact of exiting energy - related commodities.

«They have also reduced traders in the business as the electronification of the business increases and as they see credit, rates and commodities follow equities and foreign - exchange onto electronic platforms.»

The spending behaviour of firms in regions hit by the oil price shock is also recovering, supported by improving commodity prices and business confidence.

Gold: We typically see commodities outperform stocks and other risk assets in the late stages of a business cycle.

As a mirror image of a legal commodities business, the Sinaloa cartel brings to mind that old line about Ginger Rogers doing all the same moves as Fred Astaire, only backward and in heels.

These include the general background of strong demand and tight capacity, as well as rises in global commodity prices that have added to business input costs.

And he has a unique way of operating as a customer service company rather than a commodity business.

Those with an underlying business model tied to the rise and fall of a given commodity's price.

Despite slumping commodities prices affecting its oil, gas, and mining businesses, FLR still managed a 21 % ROIC in 2015 and finished the year with a larger backlog than it had at the end of 2014.

He has drafted strategic corporate business plans, raised capital for startup organizations, defined new services portfolios, developed associated infrastructure requirements, and handled the redesign and redirection of sales efforts away from «commodity» sales towards value - based service sales.