Sentences with phrase «surge in commodity prices»

A global surge in commodity prices is pushing energy back to the top of law firms» agendas, especially in Scotland.

MELBOURNE — Rio Tinto Group's best profit in three years and a record dividend is yet another sign that miners are reaping the benefits of a surge in commodity prices.

The Federal Reserve and its chairman on Wednesday repeated their position that the surge in commodity prices — such as oil and food — would be «transitory.»

The surge in commodity prices increased the terms of trade — the ratio of the price of exported goods to the price of imported goods — in both economies, but the effect in Australia was far stronger than what we saw:

China's boom fed a surge in commodities prices, but its industrial - and construction - based economy is changing and it is seeking to foster more growth in domestic consumption.

Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell said a surge in commodities prices are driving up building costs and may lead to higher apartment and office rents.

Not exact matches

Can Canada's manufacturing sector once again generate major growth for the economy as it did in the decades before oil and other commodity prices surged to record highs?

The reason why GDI started trending above GDP is the same reason wages have been growing faster than productivity: the surge of commodity prices, and of oil prices in particular, since 2002.

The parallels with the recent Canadian experience are obvious: the surge in the prices of oil and other commodities that began in 2002 has been accompanied by a fall in employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector.

Gold, iron ore and oil prices are seeing a rebound at the moment with many analysts believing that commodity prices have «bottomed out» and are eyeing gains, but Goldman Sachs has issued a warning on the current surge in commodities arguing that it is «not sustainable.»

Coupled with a continued uplift in commodity supply — partially in response to the huge surge in construction of past years that led to the glut today — it's little wonder why so many remain downbeat on the prospects for commodity prices in the years ahead.

In the past 48 hours, the price of the commodity has surged up to 8 percent.

Those winter shutdowns were expected to dampen demand and prices for Australian iron ore and coal in particular, but prices for both commodities have remained strong; iron ore prices have surged 26 per cent since October 31 to be fetching $ US77.74 per tonne on Tuesday, according to Metal Bulletin.

These monster moves come despite a surge in the U.S. dollar during November, a factor that normally weighs on commodity prices.

Several developments in the uranium space, including the restart of a reactor in Japan that has been offline since the Fukushima disaster, have primed the commodity for a price surge.

On the other hand, China's seemingly insatiable appetite as an importer of raw materials has contributed to the surge in world commodity prices, including oil.

It was a bullish day for commodities on Wednesday led by a surge in crude oil prices.

World food prices posted their biggest monthly rise for four years in June, buoyed by a surge in sugar and increases for most other edible commodities, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.

Dairy commodity costs have surged in the space of just one month to cap off huge rises in the prices being paid out by processors over the last year, according to recently published data by DIN Consultancy.

When an asset class (e.g., stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, collectibles, etc.) skyrockets in price — when it surges higher without sufficient economic reason — a bubble develops.

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It has become so easy for the average investor to hedge against inflation in this way that commodity prices surge at the very hint of inflation.

Given the significant rise in commodity prices, it's not hard to see why volume has surged.