Sentences with phrase «of volatile oil prices»

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By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.

But that can be risky: because the vast majority of oil transactions are financial, rather than between producers and users, prices tend to be more volatile than the underlying fundamentals.

Crude oil prices have been more volatile this year than at any time since the financial crisis of 2008/09 and before that 1991, according to standard measures of price variability.

Also speaking, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said his administration entered into the partnership with Lagos with a strong belief that it would create a veritable platform to drive home grown investments in the face of volatile global oil prices.

The Pentagon does not want its military bases to be at the mercy of unpredictable oil - rich nations or volatile price shifts.

That's especially true if the technique involves predicting the future, or trying to speculate on the price movements of volatile commodities like oil.

The Resource sector, which includes oil, is one of the most volatile, and no one can accurately predict future oil prices.

The volatile nature of commodity prices adds to the risk of stocks and funds in this category, which invest in higher risk, less liquid stocks, such as small oil and gas companies and junior miners.

The price of oil, for example, is quite volatile, often changing several percentage points in a day.

Lately, the value of used vehicles has been just as volatile as the stock market or the price of oil.

With that being said, smaller U.S. oil firms that aren \ «t integrated may offer direct exposure to the price of WTI crude although they are likely to be very volatile when compared to the overall energy industry.

For example, the profit performance of an oil producer is directly related to the price of oil, which is rather volatile.

It reduces our dependence on volatile prices, set by whatever the most recent unrest in the Middle East is; for example, over the last month, we have seen a 10 % oil price spike on news of a restart of Egypt's unrest — and they're not even a major oil producer!

Washington is unable to create the conditions for long - term investments because 1) election cycles create short horizons, and 2) the economics of future energy policies are often linked to volatile oil prices.

Like oil, the issue is not any risk of running out, but volatile and rising prices as the peak level of quality supply is reached.

Volatile oil prices and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East are vivid reminders of the rising cost of America's oil use.

When prices are low — or even very volatile — companies risk spending billions of dollars to get oil that's not profitable to sell.

Our meeting has been held at a time of higher and volatile oil prices, continuing increases in global oil demand, localised supply problems for some forms of energy, concern about long term security of supply and increasing attention to the environmental impact from energy use.

And his budget would cut billions of dollars from investments to develop alternative fuels and clean energy technologies that would serve as substitutes for oil and help protect middle - class families from volatile energy prices as well as create jobs.

This is disappointing news: here at Treehugger, we've repeatedly driven the point home that the president has almost no control over the price of gas in the short - term — a cocktail of global demand, oil speculation, and political instability in volatile regions determines the price of gas more than anything else.

(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge has moved up to 1.9 percent, though that partly owes to volatile oil prices and part of the move could prove transitory.