Sentences with phrase «swings in commodity prices»

And in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky - high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs.

Another point to remember is that swings in commodity prices can affect the normal relationship between the total inflation rate and the core measure of inflation that we use as an operational guide.

Farmers and consumers in countries and sectors without supply - management systems are subject to wild swings in commodity prices and have little ability to negotiate reasonable returns or prices with giant global agri - businesses.

Another point to remember is that swings in commodity prices can affect the normal relationship between the total inflation rate and the core measure of inflation that we use as an operational guide.

Depending on mining, forestry, and oil and gas leaves the country vulnerable to swings in commodity prices and the health of our export partners.

There's also a lot of competition within the sector, and external factors such as swings in commodity prices can weigh heavily on a carrier's bottom line.

Not exact matches

We supply most of the energy and food consumed at home, providing a cushion against swings in global commodity prices.

These markets are typically smaller and often more vulnerable to political shifts, commodity price swings and changes in monetary policy, among other risks.

Last week, on October 2, 2012, we locked in an 11 % gain on a swing trade in US Natural Gas Fund ($ UNG), a commodity ETF designed to roughly track the price of natural gas futures contracts.

The fast price swings in commodities and currencies will result in significant volatility in an investor's holdings.

He has seen the impact on the stock market, and he has seen the dramatic swings in certain commodity prices.

Since you can control large amounts of a commodity with a relatively small amount of money on margin, you can leverage your portfolio to take advantage of price swings in the commodity without having to actually take delivery of thousands of gallons of gasoline — something that is impractical for everyone other than institutions (such as refiners, airlines, transportation fleets, gasoline retailers, etc.).

«The National Government and Fonterra's preoccupation with growth at all costs is making the dairy sector more vulnerable and less resilient to swings in world commodity prices as well as drought and extreme weather events,» Sage said.

This will allow for the cyclical swings in share price that the commodity industry is known for without kicking you out too early.

Commodity investments are subject to wide and unpredictable swings in prices.

This represents an inherent risk — or benefit — in commodities trading in that price swings in either direction can be far more dramatic than is usually the case with stocks.

The world seems like a volatile and risky place with the massive daily swings in the stock market, rising energy prices, approaching fiscal cliff, slump in commodities, ongoing European Union debt crisis and omnipresent geopolitical risks flaming up and pushing already weak U.S. and global economies into recession once again.