Sentences with phrase «prices changes in the economy»

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The mechanics of how changes in oil prices affect the Canadian economy are a bit tricky, and you have to go beyond the standard macroeconomic framework in which there is only one good GDP.

After all, when a central bank influences the cost of financing through changes in the policy interest rate, its actions affect the economy by changing asset prices, encouraging or discouraging risk taking, and influencing credit flows.

Financial conditions affect households» and firms» decisions, so that the transmission of U.S. monetary policy to the real economy depends, to a large extent, on how changes in monetary policy help deliver the appropriate financial market conditions to support our objectives of price stability and maximum employment.

As I said at last year's Forum, the emergence of Asia as a major force in the global economy has shifted world relative prices and this underlies many of the changes that are occurring in the Australian economy.

To a large extent, this had to be done the hard way: price expectations are largely «backwards looking», so can be changed only by the economy operating below capacity, with the reduction in inflation that this causes feeding through (with a lag) to lower price expectations.

For a petro - economy such as Canada's, the financial risks associated with the pending battle against climate change are much greater than any cyclical downturn in oil prices.

Substantial changes in commodity prices present important policy issues, both for macroeconomic policies working on the demand side of the economy, and for structural policies that work on the supply side.

But much has changed since Hudson's Bay Co. purchased the U.S. luxury retailer for $ 2.9 billion back in 2013 and announced plans to bring the storied Saks brand to Canada — namely, the cratering of the price of oil, which has taken the Canadian economy down with it.

While the production side of the economy is making necessary adjustments for the changing commodity demand outlook, in our book, lower commodity prices is ultimately a good thing!

For Angola, Africa's second - largest oil producer, the fall in the price of crude oil has brought changes to its fundamentals, prompting the government, investors and analysts to review their positions on the economy.

China's boom fed a surge in commodities prices, but its industrial - and construction - based economy is changing and it is seeking to foster more growth in domestic consumption.

Inflation is also influenced by the effect that changes in interest rates have on imported goods prices, via the exchange rate, and through their effect on inflation expectations more generally in the economy.

Economy - wide demand conditions, as well as changes in the international price environment, are important forces underlying the shift in inflation.

As a sign of how quickly the economy's prospects are changing (mainly as a result of the spike in oil prices) economists at Lehman Brothers lowered their growth expectations twice in the last three weeks.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.

Snyder and Arone aren't all that worried about inflation given widespread changes in the U.S. economy over the past decade that have kept prices down.

In contrast, base metals prices have ebbed and flowed with changes in sentiment about the global economy, but have edged up in the past three monthIn contrast, base metals prices have ebbed and flowed with changes in sentiment about the global economy, but have edged up in the past three monthin sentiment about the global economy, but have edged up in the past three monthin the past three months.

We place a good deal of weight on the range of financial variables in the economy — monetary policy works, after all, by changing financial prices.

To illustrate this, just take a look at how our economy has changed since financial institutions inflated asset prices in the housing market until the bubble burst in 2007.

I doubt the BOC will change policy at this time even as the Canadian economy suffers from the severe drop in fossil fuel prices and other commodities.

The newly appointed Minister of Economy and Energy has already announced that the final result in the changes made in the energy sector should ensure zero increase in electricity prices.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenIn the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenin global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenin the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenin lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenin or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenin excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the governmenin the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

«In essence, the economic benefits that should have come from the substantial gains in education for black men over the past 75 years have been completely undone by the changing economy, which exacts an ever steeper price for the differences that still remain,» Bayer saiIn essence, the economic benefits that should have come from the substantial gains in education for black men over the past 75 years have been completely undone by the changing economy, which exacts an ever steeper price for the differences that still remain,» Bayer saiin education for black men over the past 75 years have been completely undone by the changing economy, which exacts an ever steeper price for the differences that still remain,» Bayer said.

I think we can expect a coming substantial jump in traffic fatalities, although it often takes several months for the changes in gas prices and the economy to change driving practices.

Moreover, the researchers determined that changes in water availability for agriculture of plus or minus 20 percent had little impact on global food prices, bioenergy production, land - use change and the global economy.

Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.

Changes in the money supply can influence overall levels of spending, employment, and prices in the economy by inducing changes in interest rates charged for credit, and by affecting the levels of personal and business investment spChanges in the money supply can influence overall levels of spending, employment, and prices in the economy by inducing changes in interest rates charged for credit, and by affecting the levels of personal and business investment spchanges in interest rates charged for credit, and by affecting the levels of personal and business investment spending.

Critical Knowledge: 2010 MDX: Acura's midsize luxury SUV gets a mid-life makeover with minor styling modifications, a new transmission, revised suspension, and a bunch of new technology.2010 RDX: This turbocharged compact crossover SUV has revised styling, added standard equipment, upgraded technology features, and a new front - wheel - drive model with a lower price tag and better fuel economy.2010 RL: Other than a color shuffle, the Acura RL carries over without change after a significant freshening in 2009.

And though the new range boasts fuel economy improvements across its range, and equipment changes to boot, all of the models have gone up in price — as much as $ 4900 in the case of the $ 281,100 petrol bi-turbo V8 - engined 750i.

The all - new 2014 Toyota Corolla with its significant changes in design, performance and better fuel economy, is priced only $ 120 above the last year model (for LE grade), Toyota announced today.

Macroeconomics: Macroeconomics involves the behavior of the aggregate economy such as changes in national income, unemployment, gross domestic, rate of growth, and price levels.

Part of the reason B.C. is doing so much better than the rest of Canada is because its economy isn't vulnerable to changes in the price of oil, Yu said.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

As the prices of commodities have such broad - reaching effects on the economy, an investor can take advantage of changes in commodity prices in several ways.

Some of these risks include: a deterioration in national, regional, and local economies; tenant defaults; local real estate conditions, such as an oversupply of, or a reduction in demand for, rental space; property mismanagement; changes in operating costs and expenses, including increasing insurance costs, energy prices, real estate taxes, and costs of compliance with laws, regulations, and government policies.

The price of a bond changes in response to changes in interest rates in the economy.

To essentially see beyond the horizon, when shorter - term price movements aren't indicative of future changes in fundamentals, we can consult an improved guide, a more fundamental driver — predictive changes in the economy.

Others think it is a dumb idea; gas prices can increase because of disruption in the Middle East, economic crashes or a change in government to one that imposes tough fuel economy standards.

I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).

In an ideal world, we'd put an economy - wide market price on carbon energy to create funding to pay for the necessary costs of adapting to climate change.

When US President Obama announced revised regulations on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants on August 3, 2015 in a laudable speech supporting the new rules, as he predicted opponents of US climate change policy strongly attacked the new rules on grounds that they would wreck the US economy, destroy jobs, and raise electricity prices.

As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging in the United States.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

To summarize, most of these economic analyses agree that a carbon pricing policy will reduce U.S. GDP - growth by less than 1 % over the next 10 — 40 years as compared to an unrealistically optimistic BAU scenario in which climate change does not impact the economy.

«In an ideal world, we'd put an economy - wide market price on carbon energy to create funding to pay for the necessary costs of adapting to climate change,» Jerry Taylor and David Bookbinder of the Niskanen Center wrote about the lawsuit.

These price changes now appear to be affecting the global economy, and may result in a global recession as oil and gas producers reduce their exploration and development efforts for oil and gas and countries dependent on oil and gas revenue from large reservoirs are forced to retrench and rethink their lifestyles.

Farms in the Rondout Valley and other parts of the Hudson Valley face steep challenges, including the rising price of fuel, supplies and equipment; climate change challenges; escalating taxes; and competition in a global economy.

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Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics, and Portfolios (John Wiley & Sons) describes how a combination of high prices, national insecurity and environmental anxiety is causing the world to move away from a politically and economically vulnerable single - source (crude oil) transportation system to a multi-source system which, in addition to providing energy security for every nation, should benefit the global economy and environment - a win - win - win.

Mr. Ahmad said the price falls would be negative in the medium - term because, once the economy bounced back, emissions would be higher at that point than they would have been, had changes been made earlier.