Sentences with phrase «than commodity prices»

Future high yield bond returns will likely be more muted — and depend more on improving fundamentals than commodity prices.

When we combine the on - farm observations with others beyond the farm gate, like northward - moving ranges of songbird species and shifts in important pollinators, a pattern begins to emerge that is steadier than commodity prices (Chen et al. 2011).

Since most of these companies book their revenue on volume rather than commodity prices, the drop in oil prices hasn't been catastrophic.

Not always true, if the prices of extraction / production rise faster than the commodity price, as it has been with gold producers, the stocks will be a bad investment.

These stress tests indicate that climate factors have a larger effect on economic capital than commodity price volatility.

Not exact matches

Since that report came out, we can count another upside to the «China syndrome»: Canada weathered the recession better than just about every other developed economy, thanks in part to a quick recovery in emerging economies and thus in commodity prices.

CALGARY — Commodity prices are tanking and they're bringing Canadian markets down with them, but experts say some provinces will be feeling the pinch more than others.

«The prices we've been paying for coffee have been substantially higher than the commodities market for years,» since craft wholesalers typically source coffee directly from farmers and co-operatives.

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.

After a five - year bear market in most metal commodities, miners finally had a bull run in 2016, with some stocks» prices more than doubling off their lows.

But Schembri's speech showed that the Bank of Canada remains more concerned about the 18 % plunge in Canadian commodity prices this year than the 10 % jump in the average national resale price of homes since 2013.

Darren Woods, who has worked at Exxon for more than 20 years, has helped expand the refining business at a time when the company's core exploration and production business has been rocked by low commodity prices.

Freeport - McMoRan (FCX) has suffered more pain from collapsing commodity prices than most other companies.

«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.

As with all commodities, palladium prices depend on supply and demand - if there is more supply than demand, prices will fall.

While coal experiences more ups and downs than other commodities — the weather can have an effect on prices — the black rock has been in use for centuries.

«The economy here is much more diversified than it was, say, 20 years ago and not as vulnerable to fluctuating commodity prices,» explains Michael Kehoe of Fairfield Commercial Real Estate.

Commodity prices also are weaker than the central bank predicted in July.

As I've said that the 10 yr bond crossed over 3.0 % means the US$ will be going to be weaker and weaker further and further by the 1st half of 2020 yr:) Also, the commodity price esp WTI will be going up to the level of 70 - 80 $ no later than 1st half of May (at the earliest), or no later than 2nd week of June, and then it will be in the range to the end of Trump Era:)

Overall, inflation expectations are marginally higher than in the winter survey: higher commodity prices and expected inflationary pressures in the United States are viewed as contributing to domestic inflation over the next two years.

An income profile for the typical U.S. wage earner shows the degree to which the cost of living now reflects FIRE sector costs more than prices for commodities produced by labor.

The balance of the appreciation reflects forces other than U.S. - dollar weakness and commodity prices.

However, proving that price manipulation occurred can be challenging in the commodities markets, said Professor Verstein, so the CFTC sometimes settles cases rather than letting them play out in the courts.

So it's better to think about changes in commodity prices in terms of the terms of trade than on the exchange rate.

The concerted weakening in commodity prices already suggests a global force to this economic downturn, while further weakness in the U.S. dollar would suggest that demand for U.S. goods and securities was softening even more sharply than internationally.

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:

Although the adjustment has been difficult, it has occurred over a longer period of time than the boom in commodity prices and, in general, Canada has not lost ground relative to other advanced economies.

Despite slumping commodities prices affecting its oil, gas, and mining businesses, FLR still managed a 21 % ROIC in 2015 and finished the year with a larger backlog than it had at the end of 2014.

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And on the way down — even as commodity prices fell sharply and mining investment declined — growth in GDP, employment and wages was only a little weaker than average.

But more is going on than just what is seen in the «Atlantic» group of North America and Western Europe — and the price of commodities is the proof of that proposition.

Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.

The only event that will save Glencore is a massive helicopter drop of more printed money and I doubt even that will move the needle on commodity prices (except gold and silver, of course) other than a brief knee - jerk bounce.

Outside of commodity prices, most global indicators and surveys are still in expansion territory, with services sectors generally doing better than manufacturing ones.

Future commodity price levels might certainly be different, on average, in the future than they were in the past, but we should not jump to the conclusion that the long - term boom - bust dynamics of commodities have vanished as a result.

Probably one of the surprises in the coming year will be fresh dollar weakness combined with falling commodity prices (i.e. global commodity prices falling faster than the value of the dollar itself).

There are many that matter; but in Canada's case, as research at the Bank of Canada has shown for more than 20 years, the dominant explanation is global commodity prices.

On the downside, weakness in emerging markets such as Brazil and China could turn out to be more pronounced than we expect, or commodity prices could fall further as new supply weighs on prices.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

Gold has fared well compared to the price of the U.S. dollar, better than any other hard commodity.

That time frame, more than two decades long, actually includes many periods of extreme volatility in commodity pricing, yet Enbridge kept right on paying and increasing its dividend.

Regional Report Latin America Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru are handling the drop in commodities prices better than the rest of Latin America.

If growth in America is accelerating, which it seems to be, and any remaining slack in the labor markets is disappearing — and wages start going up, as do commodity prices — then it is not an unreasonable possibility that inflation could go higher than people might expect.

Conditions in the economy are tighter now than in the aftermath of the Asian crisis, the deflationary impulse from Asian producers is no longer present and world commodity prices are rising.

Chinese concerns have used commodities as collateral so the run - up in prices may be more financial engineering than actual usage in an effort to support its collateral.

That's a much better result than a lot of other energy companies, where investors have saw decimated fundamentals in the wake of cratering energy commodity prices.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

We regard the greater stability in commodity prices, along with a lessening of volatility in financial markets, as welcome, and believe it should provide a more stable platform for the global economy, where growth remains acceptable, if lower than desirable.

In SDR terms, the Bank's index of commodity prices increased again in the June quarter, to be about 7 per cent higher than a year earlier (Graph 27).