Sentences with phrase «prices in a slump»

Harper and his ministers are unlikely to cease their Keystone advocacy in response to the veto — with oil prices in a slump, the government can afford to wait for a change of president.

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But both Twitter and GoPro have something else in common: They're in the midst of a stock price slump that caused both CEOs to recently lose their status as paper billionaires.

The slump in demand for the precious metal also coincided with prices holding within their narrowest range of any quarter in more than a decade.

While energy companies have been shutting down wells in response to the present oil price slump, there are still more job openings than job seekers in this field, according to Job Bank Canada.

«You have more regulatory uncertainty... and because of these falls you have these other outfalls,» he said, referring to the collapse of some cryptocurrencies in the recent slump in prices.

Some of that is the result of the commodity price slump, but excise its effects, and «earnings growth was somewhere in the low single digits in Canada and the United States,» says Cooper, whose firm is predicting mid-single-digit returns for equities.

But at this early stage, the damages are not expected to be so excessive that they hit insurers» capital base in a way that would lift slumping insurance prices or hurt their credit ratings.

It's hard to verify independently the claims of retail traders who say they have made good money this year, when worries about a slowing Chinese economy and the slumping oil price have wiped up to $ 8 trillion from world stock markets in January alone.

Commodity hedge funds have dwindled in recent years as oil prices slumped, leaving only a handful of larger players, including Hall, who ran the Astenbeck Capital Management fund until deciding to close it following losses this year.

It narrows in times of high spirits, when steady winds speed an already smoothly - sailing economy, the indicators look great, and stock prices advance consistently, sans lurching jumps and slumps.

As miners deal with the reality of a prolonged slump in the iron ore price, Fortescue Metals Group is quietly going about the business of building the state's third magnetite mine and processing plant.

The value of Australian iron ore exports is expected to fall next year as strong growth in production volumes is offset by a slump in prices to a forecast $ US52.10 per tonne in 2016.

Fisheries has shown very little growth, while oil and gas was booming before oil prices slumped in 2014.

Background checks related to U.S. firearm purchases suffered their deepest quarterly decline in over three years in July, suggesting a sales slump despite price discounts aimed at improving customer demand following President Donald Trump's election.

The reports looked strong at first, but looking under the hood, Cramer was very concerned by the weakness he saw: Kimberly - Clark, for one, is facing pricing challenges, rising commodity costs and a slumping diaper business in what had once been its best growth market: China.

Alcoa is targeting the reductions to reduce excess supply in the market and boost margins, after aluminum prices slumped 27 % from highs in 2011.

Legarreta, for example, ended his midweek slump by making opera affordable for more people, yet he accurately predicted that the Washington in crowd would pay higher prices for the best weekend seats.

Moller - Maersk Group, the world's largest shipping company by capacity, announced a slump in third - quarter profits on Wednesday due to low freight prices.

The March increase was the largest year - over-year move since it hit 2.4 per cent in October 2014, just as the oil - price slump was getting underway.

We may be enjoying amazingly low prices at the gas pump, but as oil prices continuing to slide we must also remember the catastrophic events that have followed almost every drastic oil price slump in the past.

Meanwhile, oil prices have recovered over the last two years from a slump in 2014 and 2015.

Many of Shell and BG's big shareholders have voiced support for the deal but a slump in oil prices below $ 30 a barrel has raised concerns that Shell may be overpaying for the smaller rival.

After an initial price bounce, shares slumped to a low of 104p in June last year.

Both Abu Dhabi and Dubai are encouraging the development of theme parks to help boost foreign tourist arrivals as oil prices slump, causing an economic slowdown in the region.

THE price of cobalt is forecast to slump with detrimentalconsequences for new cobalt - related projects in WA.

The Liwan story is particularly compelling, as Husky has locked in forward contracts to sell gas at prices ranging from US$ 11 to US$ 13, while North American natural gas prices continue to slump in the $ 3 — $ 4 range.

Zijin Mining Group has said it will use the slump in metal prices to accelerate overseas acquisitions.

He unseated Jack Ma, founder of tech giant Alibaba, who dropped to second place on $ 21.8 billion as his firm's share price slumped in New York.

The Q&A article by Rabah Arezki discusses «Seven Questions on Rethinking the Oil Market in the Aftermath of the 2014 - 16 Price Slump.»

Gold miner ETFs have also been affected by the recent slump in gold prices.

They cited «credible evidence» that Shell was paying a fair price, even in the current oil price slump.

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.

Its price slumped to Rs 319 in December 2016 and peaked at Rs 619 in March 2017 before losing steam again and touching a low of Rs 330 in August 2017.

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Premier Prentice is understandably putting on a brave face by telling Albertans that the decline in oil prices is just a temporary slump.

All of that money is being translated into a sharp rise in drilling even as oil prices slump.

The index declined 3.8 per cent Thursday to 2,784 points, reflecting the slump in the shipping industry's prices to transport dry raw materials over 26 global routes.

The Aramco investment comes as a relief for Petronas which has cut expenditures in the past year as oil prices have slumped from over $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

Iron ore prices have slumped to $ US104 a tonne in recent days, yet Mr Power said it could soon rebound as high as $ US150.»

The deal will boost Aramco's downstream business ahead of a planned initial public offering next year and also bolsters Malaysia's state - controlled Petroliam Nasional Bhd - known as Petronas - after it cut spending because of the slump in oil prices.

It's a return to normal for Canada — Western provinces have outpaced central Canada in growth for much of the past 15 years until the oil price slump.

One small group thinks that lower for longer could end soon because U.S. shale can't keep a lid on prices forever and can't catch up with expected robust demand — all the more so that investments in conventional supply around the world have slumped since the oil prices started crashing.

The Fed didn't raise rates in the first half of the year, and concerns about the commodity price slump seem to have eased and sowed some seeds of stability; low commodity prices have been stimulating demand in certain areas.

Given that the prices of both have slumped, it has resulted in a steep drop in the company's cash flow.

Even as the energy companies look to savor the recent recovery in oil prices after a protracted slump, the U.S. presidential election is seen as posing the next big threat.

Prices have already slumped in anticipation of a major market disruption, and most blogs have urged users to start protecting their Bitcoins in private wallets.

However, the Canadian Energy Research Institute has indicated that oil production in Canada is likely to scale up by about 600,000 barrels per day in 2017 and by another 200,000 next year, as a number of projects that were being developed prior to the oil - price slump are nearing completion.

That said, the big difference between the two is that Freeport - McMoRan's purchase saddled it with an exorbitant amount of debt, which is becoming a burden to manage given the global slump in commodity prices.

Australian resource shares slumped following a drop in commodity prices for industrial and precious metals.

Here's why Google's parent company, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is in buy opportunity after a two - month slump despite its four - figure stock price.