Sentences with phrase «prices for commodities like»

And with prices for commodities like oil, copper, steel, and cement commanding sky - high prices and the Producer Price Index for construction up 39 percent over the last five years, sooner or later, the increasing costs of raw materials will push home prices higher.

As prices for commodities like precious metals and gemstones have risen dramatically in recent years, your insurance policy should stipulate an automatic annual inflation increase of 5 % -10 %.

Not only that, it would have a cascading effect across the western Canadian economy, with prices for commodities like copper, coking coal (used to make steel girders for apartment blocks) and even energy probably tanking.

Not exact matches

He was amazed by the high prices Starbucks was charging for a commodity that was once Guatemala's top export but had collapsed in value in the 1980s as cheap beans from countries like Vietnam flooded the market.

The result is that biotech is no longer reserved just for producing high - priced medicine but could start to make sense for commodity products like food.

Sluggish global growth and muted inflation continue to put pressure on commodity prices, particularly those most exposed to global growth, like prices for industrial metals and oil.

And though spot commodity / equity ratios (like the ratio of the spot gold price to the XAU) are actually supportive of commodity stock prices in and of themselves, the historical tendency is for these ratios to lose some of their informative value when commodity prices themselves have run to extremes and real interest rates begin to turn.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

Whereas for a net commodity importer a rise in commodity prices acts like a tax paid to foreigners, Australian entities are net receivers of such payments.

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

The price of oil, remember, like other commodities, is not typically quoted from cash markets but rather from futures to allow for smoother and more comparable tracking of the commodity's value over time.

Now, they «re mainly talking about commodity inflation around metal prices like aluminum and steel and oil prices, which translates to the higher packaging costs for many companies.

[The price of] commodity dairy ingredients namely skim milk powder and whole milk powder... is at historic lows and is looking like staying there for a while because of the change in buying patterns in China and the embargo in Russia.

What should have been presented is decade long trends about: farm and processor bank debt; return on equity; full and part - time employment trends; farm and processor business numbers; domestic versus overseas value adding to commodities; volume and value of imported ingredients and products; international versus Australian processing costs comparisons for major foods like meats, flour, oils, milk products; and the farm gate price share of the consumer dollar for fresh foods like fruit and vegetables, milk, meats, bread, juice, eggs.

Steve: You have a huge background in bringing all kinds of information together into a single site often in real time, so that people can check [weather or] commodities prices, news, sports, things like that and [you've] been doing this for 25 years.

With dynamic pricing, provided from the power market and smart meters, installed by utility companies it is now possible for consumers to sell electricity back to the grid and trade it like a typical commodity.

Sadly, like many other commodities, I think we may end up with a tiered market, where the higher end businesses sell better product at higher prices, but fewer products, and then we'll have the dollar store version of books, where you get what you pay for, which for the most part is junk, but you know, people buy it anyway.

More likely though, is that commodities that are in short supply globally would rise, like coal, steel, oil, gold, rare minerals, etc., and only after a while, would housing prices rise, as nominal incomes become large enough, and household formation great enough for the excess supply to disappear.

For one thing, oil (like all commodities) is subject to rapid, day - to - day price fluctuations.

Not only does this mark a new era of investment alternatives from traditional assets like stocks and bonds for investors to use in order to protect against portfolio risks but as investors allocate to commodities in local Asian markets, the futures growth may help standardize the quality of energy and food to make prices less volatile and their environment cleaner.

There are all kinds of charting tools to measure historical volatility, and it's good to study them to get a «feel» for how a market's prices will have regular peaks and valleys, especially more seasonal - based commodities like the grains (corn, wheat, soybeans, etc.) and for the most part the softs (coffee, sugar, cocoa, etc.).

Like in the example outlined above, investing in a futures contract means you're buying commodity products for a set price to be supplied for a set period in the future.

Companies like Nestlé, Reckitt Benckiser, Nike, Microsoft, and Schindler, to name a few of our holdings, make and sell products that people all over the world need and will buy year after year whether or not the prices for commodities continue to increase or not.

What I can say from a strategic perspective is that 1) I like a purchase of assets at historically low prices, 2) MFC has some expertise in the commodity business so this isn't completely outside their playing field, 3) perhaps, worst case, there could be a strategy to purchase the assets in bulk at a distress sale and then sell them off piecemeal for a profit, and 4) while this may be a role of the dice (who knows where gas prices will be a year from now) MFC is not betting the ranch; the total investment will be about CDN $ 75 million ($ 33 for the outstanding shares, $ 8 million for the warrants, $ 30 million additional investment and I've estimated $ 4 million for transaction costs), or less than 25 % of MFC's current cash hoard.

In fact, if you hold a fund which rolls over monthly, like the popular USO, for the long term (more than several months) you aren't even going long on the commodity price so much as you're going short on the rate of change of the commodity price.

Futures, forwards and swaps, for example, are investment contracts between parties to buy, sell or exchange assets like equities, commodities, currencies or loan terms at agreed - upon prices.

For example, for agricultural commodities, demand and supply are the most important factors, whereas, for commodities like oil, inflation becomes a price determinaFor example, for agricultural commodities, demand and supply are the most important factors, whereas, for commodities like oil, inflation becomes a price determinafor agricultural commodities, demand and supply are the most important factors, whereas, for commodities like oil, inflation becomes a price determinafor commodities like oil, inflation becomes a price determinant.

For a commodity ETF like GLD, it is one tenth of the spot price of an ounce of gold.

Mining companies like BHP invest when prices of commodities are strong and the outlook is for continued growth in demand.

«Fish tanks are a commodity, and Internet retailers and some big - box stores like PetSmart sell them at the same price we buy them for,» he says.

Coal, like all fossil fuels, is a finite commodity, expected to cost more in the future in both commodity prices and operational expenses, due to new specifications for better scrubbers.

«In markets for storable commodities (like allowances, for example), the current price and the plan for accumulation of a stock of the commodity depend on

In the period around both the 2006 and 2011 elections, mining magnate Gertler secured mining and oil assets at prices that were often well below market value, before later striking lucrative deals for those assets with the likes of London - listed giant commodities trader Glencore.

For instance, an investor can buy a future for a commodity like oil betting that its price goes up at a certain point in tiFor instance, an investor can buy a future for a commodity like oil betting that its price goes up at a certain point in tifor a commodity like oil betting that its price goes up at a certain point in time.

Globitex aims to facilitate entry into the Bitcoin market for a new generation of customers, both retail and institutional level traders, enabling the increase in value and stability that will allow commodities like crude oil, gold, coffee and other financial instruments to be priced directly in Bitcoin.

In the commodities markets, farmers deal in futures as a hedge against the risk of falling prices in the commodity they produce (say, corn) while, on the other side of the equation, companies like airline operators deal in futures to hedge against the risk of an increase in the price of fuel for their aircraft.

I have two web sites, blogs, facebook, twitter, linkedIn and others online tools, yet when I do a search I competing with my own Real Estate Board for SEO... I see no reason to have my Board or CREA competing online to the public, all inquiries should come to Realtors like it used to, including stats which is now being used against us by the press and who view real estate as a commodity... Like Home Prices or Sales acrross Canada or your City are Down this month, etc etc... very misleading as we all know it's lolike it used to, including stats which is now being used against us by the press and who view real estate as a commodity... Like Home Prices or Sales acrross Canada or your City are Down this month, etc etc... very misleading as we all know it's loLike Home Prices or Sales acrross Canada or your City are Down this month, etc etc... very misleading as we all know it's local.

Of course, for the average investor, indexing has shown to be a much more reliable way to invest over the long - term and as a result indexing the market has become a commodity and the race to the bottom on pricing has now reached the point that firms like Charles Schwab will provide the service for free!