Sentences with phrase «oil commodities business»

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«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.
Any commodities business comes with some volatility — the oil and gas business has had a tough couple of years amid low energy prices.
Oil, of course, is a globally traded commodity, and those new costs of doing business will in time be passed on to consumers.
The spending behaviour of firms in regions hit by the oil price shock is also recovering, supported by improving commodity prices and business confidence.
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.
However, lower prices for oil and other commodities since the summer have further lowered Canada's terms of trade and are dampening business investment and exports in the resource sector.
Although the collapse in investment was as acute in Canada as it was in other advanced economies, Canadian business investment bounced back relatively quickly, as the oil and gas sector benefited from a sizable rebound in commodity prices (Chart 1).
While investment in the energy sector now appears to be stabilizing after a painful adjustment to the decline in oil and other commodity prices that began in 2014, overall business investment in the economy remains weak.
The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.
First, the decline in oil and other commodity prices since mid-2014 has dramatically altered the paths of business investment in Canada and the United States.
A diversified resources company that operates in several commodity businesses, including aluminum, energy coal and metallurgical coal, iron ore, copper, manganese, uranium, silver and titanium minerals, and has interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.
Sure miners may have been sold today due to leveraged investors selling to go into cash, but how does that «squeeze» the mining business if gold is risng RELATIVE to input costs like crude oil and commodities?
Heavy Industry — Heavy industry refers to businesses that manufacture and / or distribute «heavy» in weight commodities such as steel, iron, oil, railways, and machinery.
Legendary business magnate and oil tycoon T Boone Pickens believes oil will return to $ 100 in 12 to 18 months due to a recovery in demand for the commodity.
Like every commodity business, this is a cyclical one, and for «big oil» the next three years are going to be the sweet spot in that cycle.
Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.
His business successes have spanned several industries, including radio broadcasting, printing, high technology to oil and gas commodities.
There are several major asset classes: Paper (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, currency), Commodities (silver, gold, oil), Businesses (creation, purchase or partnership as opposed to common stock ownership) and Real Estate (rental properties, flips, land development).
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Since Chevron's business is very much tied to the price of the commodity they produce, oil and gas, the business swings are more pronounced depending on the operating environment at the time.
You can profit over the long term by investing in well - established and well - managed companies that are active in businesses involving highly volatile commodities such as oil and gas.
Mining companies and oil and gas exploration and production companies have direct exposure to commodities prices, and affiliated businesses, like heavy - equipment manufacturers and oilfield - services companies, tend to do better when the underlying commodities are performing well.
Three oil corroded canisters, (Dirt, Seed, and Water) are painted red, white, and black, each emblazoned with a dollar sign, which could point to a blunt commentary on independent farming versus complex agri - business commodities.
* Koch Industries * — with business in oil and gas exploration, pipelines, refining and trading, coal and other carbon product logistics, timber and consumer paper products, commodities trading and investing, chemicals, fertilizer, ethanol, cattle and game ranching, glass, fiber optics, electronics and plenty of awkward public relations.
Morgan Lewis's globally acclaimed Singapore office represents clients in a wide range of local and cross-border business transactions and finance restructuring, asset management, dispute resolution, and international arbitration in sectors including banking and finance, commodities, construction, insurance, manufacturing, minerals, oil and gas, and telecommunications.
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