Sentences with phrase «shore up prices»

NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun, speaking with two jumbo mortgage lenders at NAR's meetings in Washington last month, said if more lenders were to venture into the jumbo market, these buyers could help lift home sales, shore up prices, and, in turn, strengthen the broader economy.

This spring, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mexico, Algeria, and Norway banded together to shore up prices by slight cuts in oil production.

In addition to providing affordable food, the aim of Section 32 is to help absorb the excess supply of certain foods and thereby shore up prices.

A plan called «backloading» that would temporarily extract allowances from the market to shore up the price has faltered so far in the European Parliament.

While the BIT approval is a big step for the bitcoin markets, therefore, the real wave of liquidity required to shore up the price will only come when the Winklevoss fund - or another, more nimble issuer - hits the markets.

Not exact matches

Gold fell 1.2 percent on Friday after stronger than expected U.S. payrolls data shored up expectations that a pick - up in inflation will spur further U.S. interest rate hikes this year, boosting the U.S. currency, in which it is priced.

Oil majors and large independent drillers need to shore up their asset portfolios after several years of underinvestment during a price slump, analysts say.

The long - delayed Keystone XL project has pitted environmentalists, who worry about spills, against industry, who say the project will shore up discounted Canadian oil prices and attract investment to Canada's energy sector.

That pricing gap meant that Snap effectively left $ 1.2 billion on the table, money that could instead be shoring up Snap's fast - dwindling coffers.

CALGARY — Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX: CVE) is raising $ 1.5 billion through the sale of 67.5 million common shares in a move aimed at shoring up its balance sheet in the face of oil prices that have fallen to half the level of June.

Benchmark crude futures contracts have in the past week wiped out the gains made since the end of September when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said it would agree to cut oil production to shore up persistently low prices.

The article discussed several Chinese companies that are trying to shore up their stock prices by ensuring employees against losses if they buy stock in the company.

Even if regulators have shored up settlement mechanisms and instituted stricter margin requirements, that's a financial consideration that will impact the futures products themselves, not the price of bitcoin trading on exchanges.

Any deal would require approval from Lynas shareholders at the annual general meeting on November 30 but could help shore up the company's balance sheet after a sustained lull in the prices for rare earths.

The diversified Canadian miner took advantage of strong commodity prices to shore up its balance...

A number of Chinese companies are trying to shore up their stock prices with programs that encourage employees to buy shares and ensuring them against losses.

China's biggest rare earths producer has suspended production in an effort to shore up plunging prices of the materials used by makers of mobile phones and other high - tech products.

China's biggest rare earths producer has suspended output in an effort to shore up slumping prices of the materials used by makers of mobile phones and other high - tech products.

Their goal has been to shore up oil prices for over a year now.

ASEAN nations have since redoubled efforts to better manage domestic food supplies and shore up regional arrangements to share information with one another on cross-country stocks and prospects as well as curb volatility in rice and food prices.

European Commission (EC) compensation will be required to shore up Finnish producers facing a double - digit fall in milk prices as a result of the Russian embargo, farmer representative MTK has claimed.

Lion apparently views its WCB stake as a means of shoring up its position and stemming the bleeding in a price - driven business line with high private label penetration.

Beef producers and processors are also under pressure to shore up supply in a market where drought and high prices have reduced supply and made it difficult for such operators.

Over the summer the team acquired Adam Larsson to help shore up the blue line, a perennial issue for the team, but paid a high price by sending Taylor Hall to the New Jersey Devils in return.

By trading Burfict and making those signings, it allows us to keep 21 to take a Billy Price or a Will Hernandez (hell, whichever LB we don't take could fall to 21 and we could really shore up the defense).

Most outlets agree the price is somewhere between # 30 million and # 35 million, which is certainly a large amount for a player yet to be tested on our shores, add onto that the rumoured 5 - year deal signed at # 120k per week and the ends up much closer to # 65 million than 35.

January needs to be acted upon like we are going to be relegated — that doesn't mean signing an injured midfielder!!!! A season or 3 ago we were in for Phil jagielka and Mark Schwarzer but tight arse refused to pay the # 12 m and # 2m respective asking price — and we fell away from competing without a whimper... well the spine I've been bleating on about for so long needs creating so go and get petr Czech now and shore up our diabolical defence..

I think this country's food issues are so deeply flawed that each of these attempts at a solution are destined to fail unless shored up with adequate food security, elimination of food deserts in poor communities, the elimination of price supports for foods that don't support our health, etc..

«In other words, President Buhari increased petrol pump price because the country was broke and it needed to shore up its revenue base.

The 15 % SPT slapped on petroleum products, at the time, was aimed at shoring up dwindling revenues due to the falling price of crude on the international market.

The all new BMW 1 Series is set to shake - up the luxury compact market when it hits Australian shores this month, priced below the outgoing model yet boasting new features and a significant increase in standard specification.

This car is clearly for foreign shores not for the UK (price wise) It's the same with the new F - Type far to dear but the Chinese will lap it up.

Politics has played an important role: in Europe, several governments including France, Russia and Germany are investing tens of millions to shore up their publishing and bookselling infrastructure, while in the United States a contentious lawsuit saw the Department of Justice convicting Apple and five of America's largest publishers of colluding to fix ebook prices.

But as a Wall Street Journal story points out, they are still shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to e-book prices, by keeping them artificially high in an attempt to shore up their profit margins and protect their existing print business.

And even if they did manage to pull it off, they'd keep eBook prices high to shore up their paper profits — which is of course what they're doing now.

It's helped shore up the losses after the collapse of the wholesale market, but extracts a heavy price for it.

Don't panic and be tempted to raise prices in an attempt to shore up revenue.

The banks are desperate for deposits to shore up their balance sheets, yet rates keep dropping faster than condo prices in Miami.

Our river cruises stop up to three times a day, allowing guests time to explore their destination, relax on the ship, or enjoy shore excursions to local attractions, which may be included in the price of the holiday.

Microsoft has to do something to shore up Xbox One sales or it would go the same way as Nintendo and Wii U did, whose prices are way off than its perceived values, notes Time.

but if sony can shore up their software lineup and maybe cut the price again, they have an opportunity to win over that gta audience

A small PC and Mac patch fixed a few issues with the Imperial City and Coldharbour, while a much larger PlayStation 4 and Xbox One patch shored the game up on those consoles (including revealing «invisible guild store prices»).

But that price differential gave Nintendo a competitive edge, which shored up the company's market share in the Wii era.

And while the affluent are the biggest polluters, developing island countries — some of which rely on tourism to shore up their economies — are paying the higher price when it comes to climate change.

And Germany's strong economy and commitment to protect the environment were small prices to pay for Chancellor Merkel to shore up her weak coalition with the Free Democrats.

Nothing resembling an industrial revolution, but, on the contrary, concerns that the UK's energy policies will send prices up, and industry away from these shores.