Sentences with phrase «than energy prices»

Unlike high yield, the Energy sector is only 2 % of the index, the beginning of year drag of this index had more to do with the amount of issuance and the concern over the lack of covenant protections incorporated in the issuance than Energy prices.

This is important as these components of inflation tend to be «stickier» and larger than energy prices.

Such a system — which would have direct and visible positive financial consequences (i.e., rebate checks larger than energy price increases) for 80 % of American households — might not only not be difficult for politicians to support, but it might actually be difficult for politicians to oppose!

Not exact matches

In addition to the underperformance from the energy sector after U.S. military strikes in the Mideast, big oil stocks like Exxon Mobil and Chevron, which have a longer history than the ETFs, as well as the price of crude oil, have also trailed the market.

Oil prices might have bottomed as output in the United States and other non-OPEC producers is beginning to fall quickly and an increase in supply from Iran has been less than dramatic, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.

While energy companies have been shutting down wells in response to the present oil price slump, there are still more job openings than job seekers in this field, according to Job Bank Canada.

So, while low oil prices will make this a trying quarter for the entire energy industry, companies with a more balanced portfolio of assets should fare better than the pure - plays.

Ford Motor Co. built more than three million Pintos in the 1970s, a smaller, lighter car meant to be economical in the face of soaring energy prices (and Japanese competitors).

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

The biggest losers were energy (XLE), consumer staples (XLP) and materials (XLB), all down more than 7 percent amid riding bond yields — which makes dividend stock yields less attractive and overrode other factors, like stronger oil prices and a weak dollar.

He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.

«With so much supply landlocked, Canadian oil prices are taking a serious hit,» Casey Research energy analyst Marin Katusa wrote in a late June investment note that estimated that Western Canadian Select, a heavy crude, was trading for a whopping US$ 23 less than WTI; a gap 30 % larger than the average differential between 2006 and 2010.

* Depending on the other project parameters and oil prices (I've used the U.S. Energy Information Administration 2013 reference case as well as a $ 15.00 differential between WTI and diluted bitumen), the foregone royalties and taxes can even be slightly larger than the foregone profits to the operator.

OPEC wants to keep oil prices relatively higher than they have been in recent years, having lost $ 76 billion in 2016 due to cheap oil caused by rising American and Iranian oil production, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

He had been anticipating a drop in oil prices, for example, but rather than play oil producers (which Canadian investors already hold a lot of), he decided to focus on the energy transportation sector.

Coal prices in general were driven even lower in 2016 due to low natural gas prices and warmer - than - usual winter temperatures that cut down demand for coal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

As Bitcoin's price has soared, so too has the energy consumption to produce it — to the point that Bitcoin mining now guzzles more electricity than all the electric cars in the world.

Since then, though, NGL Energy has divested some of the same assets, which lowered its revenue more than 30 % in fiscal 2016, but boosted its sagging stock price.

«Energy prices are more than likely to stabilize here between the $ 60 and $ 70 range as opposed to the prior range of $ 50 to $ 60.»

The energy sector fell 1.1 percent on the back of a more than 1 percent drop in crude oil prices as the dollar remained near a four - month high.

Spokesman Marc - Antoine Pouliot said more than 100 cryptocurrency companies have expressed interest in coming to Quebec to take advantage of the province's rock - bottom energy prices.

We predicted falling prices would make solar energy cheaper than fossil fuel in most states; that was overly exuberant.

THE 1998 - 99 recovery of mineral and energy prices is forecast to continue, with average prices likely to rise more than 5 per cent in 2000 - 01, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

How this disinflation happened, caused a dip among inflation indicators meaning that real wages accelerated at 2.5 % rather than 3 % which is where we were headed with a stable energy price environment.

At dispute is an alleged deficit that amounts to less than two per cent of $ 630 billion (U.S.) in annual Canada-U.S. trade, and the final result can be made or broken by a small shift in energy prices and currency values.

Declining energy prices caused its shares to lose more than 40 % of their value between mid-2014 and late 2015.

Likewise, the disinflationary tailwind of lower oil and gas prices should provide a much greater disposable income boost to lower income households than higher income groups, as the former generally spend a larger share of income on energy.

It is worth noting, however, that we believe it is incumbent on the government to keep spending within declared levels, and to appropriately apply any unexpected gains (i.e. from a stronger than forecast GDP growth, higher energy prices, etc.) to the deficit and thus hasten the return to a balanced budget.

Oil prices have arisen from the lows set in March, but a glut of inventory and few catalysts for dramatic jumps in global energy demand suggest 2015 earnings will likely be less than half of last year's tally.

Oil prices have fallen more than 15 percent since March 4 to a six - year low of $ 42.3, wiping out $ 7 billion of market value of high - yield debt issued by energy companies.

Since Australians pay world prices for energy and materials (albeit with smaller taxes added than Europeans), as users we face this same apparent backward shift in the supply curve in that part of the economy: it costs more now to use the same amount of these inputs as before.

This could lead to select opportunities among Energy, Technology, and Financials stocks in the U.S.. However, any notable economic improvements could close the window on such opportunities, and lead to higher short - term interest rates in the U.S. sooner than is currently priced into the markets.

From the perspective of Energy East, Canada is simply electing to sell oil to itself (presumably at world prices) rather than importing at world prices on the east coast and exporting at (eventually, hopefully) world prices in the west.

The rate for energy costs will change if the average price of diesel has changed from the previous range for a period of more than two out of the previous three weeks.

However, Sanchez Energy's plan was to use higher oil prices to boost production and cash flow so it could support the mountain of debt it took on to complete the deal, with its aim to get leverage to less than 3.0 next year.

Euro zone inflation eased in June because of more moderate energy price rises, but the slowdown was less than expected by markets and the core measure of price growth the ECB keenly watches increased by more than anticipated.

Cenovus Energy Inc. closed down 5.56 per cent after it said its oilsands operations have been operating at reduced rates due to wider - than - normal light - heavy oil price differentials and pipeline capacity constraints.

So Energy Fuels has a little bit more leverage to the uranium price than some of the other companies we cover.

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.

With oil prices high enough to pay comfortably for investments and dividends, the energy giant may be tempted to ramp up new projects in a bid to become bigger than Shell.

Food and energy prices tend to be much more volatile than the rest of the goods and services included in the CPI - U and subject to more temporary shock.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

Energy company Shell says its earnings rose more than expected in the third quarter as it benefited from higher market prices and an expansion into gas production.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

Energy names Marathon Oil and Murphy Oil are actually expected to report losses rather than profits, which is why they don't have price - to - earnings ratios at all.

Energy companies, which have had to contend with falling oil prices, delivered more than 7 % EPS growth on a 3.5 % decline in revenues.

U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in January, recording their largest gain in more than four years amid increases in the cost of energy products and some services, but a strong dollar continued to keep underlying inflation tame.

The result would surely have been that resource and energy prices, and CPI inflation everywhere, would now be lower than they are.