Sentences with phrase «pricing environment»

In today's low oil price environment, it's far more difficult to find the right winner.

The current pricing environment has encouraged both corporations and franchisees to unlock the value of their owned real estate.

It's these costs that can sink a mining company in a low commodity price environment.

We believe that our portfolios represent the best possible mix of high quality assets, financial staying power, and dynamic exposure to the better gold price environment that we expect.

Thus, monetary policy can best help to foster economic growth by ensuring the continuation of a stable price environment.

«It's becoming a more competitive pricing environment in the last three years,» he says.

Could that be a worry in a softer pricing environment?

It did so in the midst of a difficult winter and a rising natural gas price environment.

The company's low cost structure will help it survive a depressed pricing environment in the meantime.

That limited competition should allow a somewhat rational pricing environment.

This changing price environment may be keeping some buyers on the sidelines as they wait to see where the dust will settle, so to speak.

It should not be a surprise that any project would generate cash once it has been built, even in a challenging price environment.

He also employs mostly options strategies that offer both limited risk and staying power in these often volatile price environments.

Big food will attempt to pass off the costs to retailers, but they will have trouble in a brutal pricing environment.

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

However, we believe this simply reflects a move towards a more normal pricing environment.

He says that will be «holding up the global panel pricing environment yet again,» with domestic pricing holding firm.

These areas have been at the forefront of the challenging commodity price environment.

But now we are in a soft pricing environment; profits will not rise rapidly, if at all.

This limits competition and creates a favorable and rational pricing environment.

In summary, I can't see Berky doing that well over the next twelve months because of the weak pricing environment for insurance, and the difficulty the Buffett will have in deploying the free cash of Berky.

«As the regulatory and price environment continues to encourage the use of natural gas, Northeast states will find themselves increasingly starved of the energy needed to power the economy and keep the lights on,» said Harbert.

Specifically related to oil, notwithstanding a fuel price environment today that is well below the 15 - year average, the value proposition for our airplanes remains a compelling one, and we have seen airlines in the past efficiently adjust to similar market conditions.

«We're seeing a higher price environment... but I don't think we're goig to look at really apocalyptic numbers,» he said.

In addition, Nyrstar will have the opportunity to retain upside exposure to an improving commodity price environment by receiving additional cash proceeds through a price participation agreement with Laguna on the first 7.9 million tonnes of ore processed at El Toqui following the closing of the Transaction.

«Cumulatively, between 2015 and 2017, the world has added around 5 mb / d of demand for oil products on the back of healthy economic conditions globally and a relatively steady product price environment,» OPEC said.

What's more, analysts with Bank of America Merrill Lynch believe that oil demand will peak sometime after 2050, «as long as we remain in a relatively low oil price environment of $ 55 - 75 per barrel in real terms.»

- How is the low fuel price environment affecting spending in upstream oil and gas, renewables and energy efficiency?

«The Australian dairy industry has to get real about milk prices and find ways to adjust to the new lower milk price environment that we expect is likely to continue next season.»

However, in today's low crude price environment, it's essential we accelerate this work,» Suncor CEO Steve Williams said in a release.

This factor took a back seat during the oil price rally in recent months, but with production growth of nearly 850,000 barrels per day since late in the summer, U.S. oil producers have demonstrated how aggressive they can be in a rising price environment.

«Drilling down to the key fundamentals, oil producers have to cut costs to survive in a lower - for - longer price environment,» said Neil Wilson, analyst at ETX Capital.

The more stable price environment provided by inflation targeting has also helped the economy adjust to economic shocks, such as the global high - tech bubble, 9/11, SARS, and the rapid rise in oil prices, allowing businesses and households to allocate resources more efficiently.

How this disinflation happened, caused a dip among inflation indicators meaning that real wages accelerated at 2.5 % rather than 3 % which is where we were headed with a stable energy price environment.

In today's tighter price environment, Big Oil is in a renewed competitive position because there is competition for new capital investments, which means lower production taxes, much lower production costs, and easy access to resources.

Gold demand had a soft start to 2018, reaching 973 tonnes (t), the lowest first quarter since 2008, according to data released by World Gold Council on Thursday.This was largely caused by a fall in investment demand for gold bars and gold - backed exchange - traded funds (ETFs), as a subdued gold price environment hampered demand.

The oil market could finally be breaking out of a depressed pricing environment after three years of sluggishness, according to Trafigura Group, an oil trading company.

Inserting a discount store within a full - price environment seems counterintuitive.

Picking gold and silver equities in a stagnant price environment is a stock picker's game that requires a particular thesis — and a fair portion of patience, says Joe Reagor, an analyst with ROTH Capital Partners.

Perhaps the most obvious answer to the uptick in uranium prices lies simply in the actions of uranium producing companies to bolster their balance sheets and remain profitable in the low spot and term price environments.

In addition to responding to a fluctuating price environment, it is actively engaged in the changing federal and provincial policy landscape, regulatory setting and practices around Indigenous and community consultation.

In the face of a weak spot and forward price environment for U3O8, I continue to believe the low cost ISR producers offer the highest acceptable leverage to the price and sufficient safety based on near term or immediate cash flow.

Gross margin is expected to be 37.5 % to 38 %, a sequential downtick as the memory pricing environment remains unfavorable.

«The high oil price environment allows them to turn the screws» on the oil industry, says Ian Nathan, senior research analyst for Energy Intelligence Group in New York City.

I suspect the answer will involve dynamic adaptation to what is clearly a fast changing marketing and pricing environment on a number of levels.

There's too many financial players that think there is easy money to be made in reinsurance after the recent spate of catastrophes, but that added capital is eliminating any hard pricing environment that might have emerged.