Sentences with phrase «shocks on commodity prices»

February was a month where we witnessed the positive impact of these supply shocks on commodity prices.

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In the past three months alone, Lawson's firm, which specializes in commodities consulting, has advised 10 companies (including Levi's) on how to weather the supply shock in a cotton market so volatile that they are no longer able to lock in price.

«They helped cushion the blow on the economy from the commodity - price shock, which is of course better than reacting after the fact,» Poloz said Wednesday.

Governing Council considered carefully the implications of the commodity price shock on potential output because it is important to gauging the outlook for inflation.

But one could also add the periodic commodity price shocks, the disruptive impact of the tragic Japanese earthquake and tsunami on global trade and production, and the effect of the uncertainties around the impending fiscal cliff on hiring and investing.

The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

The distribution of these real income gains across the economy depends, crucially, on how much the exchange rate appreciates in response to the positive shock to world commodity prices (RBA 2005).

there is a larger than anticipated impact of our financial crisis and deleveraging on potential output; there has been the global commodity price shocks, exacerbated here by our depreciated exchange rate; and, of course, there is the ongoing uncertainty in the eurozone which is now acknowledged to be having an impact on growth and investment across the world, from the US to China.

In a 2010 article in Harper's Magazine, Frederick Kaufman argued the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index caused a demand shock in wheat and a contango market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, contributing to the 2007 — 2008 world food price crisis.