Sentences with phrase «of global market forces»

But Obama is eager to be seen as «pro-drilling» in election season — especially one in which rising gas prices are likely to offer the GOP its preferred window of attack (never mind that expanding drilling doesn't lower gas prices, which are instead at the whim of global market forces).

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The vibrant global marketplace of today, increasingly driven by daily technological advancements, is constantly forcing marketers and advertisers to evolve their strategies for achieving higher sales, and currently the most valuable skill to possess relates to content marketing.
«Boards need to spend a bigger proportion of time looking forward to where global forces are moving their markets,» says Wiseman.
The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.
«Irreversible structural forces,» including a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, technology, global markets and small - business - friendly demographics, mean the next decade will see this startup wave continue and accelerate:
«But at the end of the day they could, because of this global growth surge, the central banks including the Fed could very well be forced to hike... faster than the market expects,» he explained.
That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not by market - determined expected return but by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.
As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.
Ever since his breakthrough book, Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market (Wiley, 2004), best - selling author, analyst, and financial writer John Mauldin has been helping individual investors and institutions develop a clearer understanding of the forces driving the global economy and investment markets.
The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»
In fact, the analyst pointed out that the company has been investing in building an «enterprise - oriented» sales force with a global distribution market that could sustain organic revenue growth of 20 percent or better over the coming years.
The world's first yuan - denominated oil contracts launched today, as part of China's drive to turn its currency into a global force in markets.
While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.
Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.
So, as we have evolved over the past 30 years from the bull market into the bull market, it's a global force and so that will ultimately decide whether this was the end of the bull market or not.
These two forces, domestic investment concentration in one asset class and an incoming tide of liquidity from broader global risk assets (think emerging markets, commodities and the metals) characterizes the moment.
The steeply rising costs of developing new technologies and new products have forced companies to employ on the emerging global markets the use of global brand - names and global advertising.
The growth of the middle class in markets such as China - and the resulting increase in disposable income - has been pinpointed as the driving force behind an increase in global dairy consumption and demand.
With the launch of SmartWood in 1989, the Rainforest Alliance developed the world's first global forestry certification program and the first to rely on market forces to conserve forests.
Up to 85 per cent of the 2500 infant formula brands competing in the lucrative China market could eventually be locked out under tough new regulations by authorities that came into force on January 1, with some Australian brands likely to be caught up in the global shake - out over the next few months.
Tata Waters, a division of Montvale, N.J. - based Tata Global Beverages, and Talking Rain Beverage Co., Preston, Wash., have joined forces in bringing a new premium bottled water, Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, to the U.S. market.
Nestle, the largest company (controlling about 29 % of the global baby milk market) is also the target of the Nestle boycott, which forces some changes in Nestle marketing policies and practices.
The conference will include keynote speeches, panel discussions and breakout sessions on key aspects including: managing increased information requests under Solvency II, the importance of insurers» roles as long - term investors and providers of retirement products, and the UK's role as a force in global insurance markets.
Many perceive it as driven by the global market, enriching the global corporation, and adding yet another force by which the poor can be squeezed out of their livelihoods.
«Despite recent market turmoil, mobility continues to be a critical part of the global work force, and we expect to see healthy growth in the number of mobile workers,» Crook said.
Technology, the global job market, school choice, student expectations, political pressures, and significant advancements in what we know about how kids learn — the science of teaching — are among the forces that make changes in how schools operate and how teachers teach inevitable.
You can expect to see lessons in propaganda as the educational norm — teachers will be obliged to extoll the wonders of free market capitalism and the American business system; they will be forced to speak in favor of the nation's latest wars; and perhaps there will be lessons devoted to creation science and the lie of global climate change.
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Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strategies across European markets, self - publishing, regulation, piracy, and the expanding activities of the leading global players such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Kobo.
With an estimated 60 - 65 % of the global ebook market, Amazon is the only retailer with the power to force these difficult decisions upon authors.
The interest rate on your student loan is influenced by a number of factors, ranging from your individual credit profile to ever - changing forces within the global financial markets.
«A significant number of students are forced to leave school because of an unexpected illness, injury or serious mental health issue sometime during their college career — creating a significant financial loss for students and their families,» said Joe Mason, Chief Marketing Officer of Allianz Global Assistance USA.
He has been helping individual investors and institutions develop a clearer understanding of the forces driving the global economy and investment markets.
Price reflects all of the technical, fundamental, emotional, global economic, and supply / demand forces present in the market.
Ever since his breakthrough book, Bull's Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market (Wiley, 2004), best - selling author, analyst, and financial writer John Mauldin has been helping individual investors and institutions develop a clearer understanding of the forces driving the global economy and investment markets.
Think of it this way: the Fed might want to continue the short - term financing indefinitely, but there have been times in the past where the Fed has felt forced to abandon a plan because of global macroeconomic events (think 1986 - 7, when the dollar fell, then the bond market fell, then the stock market fell...).
He has been helping individual investors and institutions develop a clearer understanding of the forces driving the global economy and investment markets.
Postcommodity's art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever - expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence.
«I want to think deeply about the force of change in contemporary art today, where the art market, the global art world, is forced to recognize the creative output of African artists,» says Smooth, who is also a curator at the Hood Museum of Art, Darthmouth College and curated the 11th Dak» Art Biennale.
So the darker hopes arise — maybe a particularly furious El Niño or a «carbon bubble» where the financial markets realize that renewables have become more scalable and economical, leading to a run on fossil - fuel assets and a «generational crash» of the global economy that, through great suffering, buys us more time and forces change.
Market forces are largely ineffective in mitigating against Global Warming since markets tend to be relatively short term in comparison to the slightly longer timescales over which we will feel the full effects of GW.
Recharge news Despite current uncertainties affecting the Brazilian wind power sector, the industry's long - term outlook is solid and the country will remain a leading force in the global renewable energy market a decade from now, according to Morten Dyrholm, chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (global renewable energy market a decade from now, according to Morten Dyrholm, chair of the Global Wind Energy Council (Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
Whereas the restructuring of the information and communications sectors was shaped by advancing technology and market forces, the restructuring of the energy economy will be driven also by the realization that the fate of our global civilization may depend not only on doing so, but doing so at wartime speed.
In total, Mark has over 20 years» experience as a financial analyst covering global energy and environmental markets, and since May 2016 he has been a member of the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures.
«For the moment green energy is not viable on its own without subsidy or regulatory incentives... market forces will not provide sufficient financing unless the risks of policy change are appropriately addressed,» the PM told energy ministers from 22 countries, who contribute 80 % of global carbon emissions.
WEO - 2017, the International Energy Agency's flagship publication, finds that over the next two decades the global energy system is being reshaped by four major forces: the United States is set to become the undisputed global oil and gas leader; renewables are being deployed rapidly thanks to falling costs; the share of electricity in the energy mix is growing; and China's new economic strategy takes it on a cleaner growth mode, with implications for global energy markets.
The Global Scenarios Group set of scenarios include characterisations in which institutions and governance as we know them persist with minor reform; «barbarisation» scenarios consider futures in which «absolute poverty increases and the gap between rich and poor... [and] national governments lose relevance and power relative to trans - national corporations and global market forces...» (Gallopin et al., 1997); «great transitions» scenarios contain storylines in which sustainable development becomes an organising principle in goverGlobal Scenarios Group set of scenarios include characterisations in which institutions and governance as we know them persist with minor reform; «barbarisation» scenarios consider futures in which «absolute poverty increases and the gap between rich and poor... [and] national governments lose relevance and power relative to trans - national corporations and global market forces...» (Gallopin et al., 1997); «great transitions» scenarios contain storylines in which sustainable development becomes an organising principle in goverglobal market forces...» (Gallopin et al., 1997); «great transitions» scenarios contain storylines in which sustainable development becomes an organising principle in governance.
Organized by The Canadian Bar Association and Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, and hosted by McCarthy Tetrault Liam shares insights and observations about market forces impacting the legal industry, from his perspective as a long - time advisor to global law firms and corporations, and as an acquirer of emerging technologies and companies.
In the case of the $ 700 billion global legal market it would be forced into a systemic and messy meltdown, which could easily be avoided.
And I do know this: any global law firm with an office in Canada and with access to global private capital would turn this country's legal profession upside down, from acquiring talent to investing in online infrastructure to marketing its brand to forcing law societies across Canada to look hard at regulations surrounding non-lawyer investment in or ownership of law firms.
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