Joint ventures enable REITs, while their stock
prices remain low, to use the capital of their partners to keep their acquisition (and, increasingly, development) pipeline full.
With rumours circulating around one previously announced M&A deal in the mining sector running into trouble, we expect a further shakeout amongst bitcoin miners should
prices remain low or decline further.
As oil
prices remain low, interesting in risky and remote drilling may seem like a less profitable option to oil companies.
«If existing coal plants in the U.S. that only need to recoup operating costs are losing money and closing, then it is difficult to imagine how any new coal plant, no matter how efficient or cheap, can be built and recover investment costs on top of operating costs — at least in the U.S. — as long as gas
prices remain low,» said Wade Schauer, director of Americas Power & Renewables Research at Wood Mackenzie.
In the last scenario, there is a CPP but no regional compliance and natural gas
prices remain low.
[SEPP Comment: Two issues: will the natural gas
prices remain low and will EPA still force closing of coal plants?]
If oil
prices remain low, some rollback of EPA mobile source greenhouse gas regulations may also become politically feasible.
A recent study of the Texas housing market, for instance, concluded that if gas
prices remain low, it can throw off sales of existing homes and new construction by anywhere from 10 % to 20 %.
If oil
prices remain low, or fall further, then the firm will likely be forced to cut its dividend in the near future.
Do
prices remain low as products are still sold at a loss?
The U.S. economy is operating at near full employment levels, wages are rising, interest rates and fuel
prices remain low and consumer confidence remains high.
Moreover, if natural gas
prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.
Some of this new capacity is already under contract, but if oil
prices remain low for several years, expiring contracts might be replaced with new deals for less demand, and at far less favorable prices.
Risks to be aware of Oil service companies might be forced to break, cancel, or alter some of these contracts if oil
prices remain low for several quarters.
Whether these forecasts prove accurate remains to be seen — and will depend to a large extent on how long
prices remain low.
What is clear is that the longer oil
prices remain low, the greater the hardship will be on the Gulf's population.
That's especially likely to be a developing problem this autumn, if oil
prices remain low and many firms will see their price hedges starting to roll off in large quantities.
If
prices remain low, that number will rise significantly.
This impact would not be as immediate but something owners should consider if oil
prices remain low for a prolonged period of time.
This trend has reversed in recent weeks, with larger discounts applied to global and Canadian heavy crude leading to bitumen
prices remaining low while world oil prices have gained some of the lost ground.
«With gasoline
prices remaining low (providing a huge windfall to U.S. consumers), confidence sky - high and the buoyancy in labor market activity likely to bolster household income, we expect consumer spending activity to rebound strongly in the coming months,» Mulraine said.
The available data suggest nationwide average
prices remained lower than a year earlier, driven by weakness in Sydney and Melbourne (Graph 25 and Table 7).
The Fed just doesn't have inflation concerns, especially with energy
prices remaining low.
With all that going on, the four volatility indexes based on SPX option
pricing remained low and on average were basically unchanged last week.
But Anadarko sees oil
prices remaining low.
Sugar supply business AB Sugar has performed steadily in the first half, according to the company, adding that although world
prices remained low a tightening of EU and Chinese stock levels had strengthened domestic prices in those markets.
Entry
price remains low at $ 16,945 for a Mazda3 i SV — no Bluetooth and plastic hubcaps, but it has a peppy 155 - horsepower four - cylinder engine mated to a slick - shifting six - speed manual transmission.
Here's our wishlist: there is some more shipments of TouchPad (maybe the craze is what is liked here), a new TouchPad comes in the scene,
price remains low (if not as low as $ 100) and the WebOS flourishes.
Transfers to the North terminal only take 10 minutes and despite its popularity,
the price remains low at only # 12.12 per day.
What's this means is production, and thus supply for the market, will decline rapidly if the recent drop in the price of oil discourages new drilling, which could well be the case if
the price remains low, or worse yet, continues to drop.
The question is how low will the price of oil go and how long will
the price remain low?
Unfortunately for those seeking to make the promise of wild profits off drilling, the regs will bite, especially if
the price remains low.
Ethereum
prices remained low for the first couple of years, hovering below $ 2 until February 2016.
While sales have risen,
prices remain lower.
As you can see
prices remained low relative to income from 1980 to 2000.
Not exact matches
NEW YORK / LONDON, May 2 - Gold
prices hovered near four - month
lows on Wednesday as the dollar advanced, and were expected to
remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.
And even if that doesn't happen, current
prices remain too
low to encourage new investment in the oil sands.
Fuel
prices remain relatively
low, the jobs report continues to show that we are near full employment, and small business lending has rebounded from the depths of the credit crunch to record levels by some measures.
LONDON, May 2 - Gold steadied on Wednesday near 4 - month
lows as the dollar's uptrend paused, but
prices of the precious metal are expected to
remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.
(New throughout, updates
prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK) NEW YORK / LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Gold
prices hovered near four - month
lows on Wednesday as the dollar advanced, and were expected to
remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.
The general view among industry pundits was that
price swings would
remain relatively
low, with oil trading between $ 50 and $ 60 a barrel — exactly what unfolded.
«
Lower oil
prices continue to be a significant challenge across the business, and the outlook
remains uncertain,» van Beurden said.
Price corrections
remain within the confines of the upper and
lower bands of the short term GMMA.
Interest rates
remain low, unemployment hovers around 5 percent, jobs are being added to the economy, and
low gas
prices have cut the cost of doing business.
Newton, who doesn't own the stock but has his eye on it, says investors have to believe that the U.S. will continue its push for energy independence and that natural gas
prices will
remain low enough to keep it a more cost - effective way to fuel up.
Just how much, if any, of this course - correcting for consumers (read:
lower prices) comes out of employees» hides (read:
lower compensation, less training, a more oppressive pace)
remains to be seen.
Casper's
prices are already
low to
remain competitive, and big sales don't happen often.
The
price collapsed to ludicrously
low levels and has
remained low, sending some natural gas drillers into bankruptcy.
There's every reason to
remain doubtful about the Bank of Canada's ability to keep interest rates
low in the face of rising home
prices.
With four major players
remaining in the wireless market, consumers should continue to benefit from competition that has
lowered prices, eliminated two - year contracts, and done away with all sorts of annoying fees and extra charges.