Critically, the greatest impact will likely be felt not in reduced volumes in the short term, but in the consequent pressure
on commodity prices caused by lower - than - anticipated demand.
Not exact matches
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may
cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in
commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments
on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations;
pricing actions; and other factors.
It can
cause companies to hold back
on technology spending, marketing expenditures and other investments in their future in order to meet a prognostication affected by factors outside the company's control, such as fluctuations in
commodity prices, stock market volatility and even the weather.
The
price of gas that trades
on U.S.
commodity exchanges has been famously volatile, and multiple spikes in the past decade have
caused electricity
prices to skyrocket.
The slump in
commodity prices has
caused a number of railroad stocks to go
on sale, and CN looks particularly interesting since it has less exposure to the weakest
commodity — coal.
In a 2010 article in Harper's Magazine, Frederick Kaufman argued the Goldman Sachs
Commodity Index
caused a demand shock in wheat and a contango market
on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, contributing to the 2007 — 2008 world food
price crisis.
Though Russia is ranked 115 out of 163 nations surveyed and classified as a medium - risk country, the recent heatwave's impact
on grain production and the nation's ban
on grain exports, combined with a 25 % decrease in Canadian grain production in June, due to flooding, is
causing fluctuations in
commodity prices, in turn increasing food insecurity in the most vulnerable nations.
Land valuations, lending criteria, misrepresentation from business advisors, increasing cost of production, low
commodity prices, over regulation, animal rights activists all these, and many more reasons are
causing a tidal wave to crash down
on the rural -LSB-...]