Sentences with phrase «triggered by the oil price»

The BOS indicator illustrates the slowdown in business activity in late 2014 triggered by the oil price shock.

Not exact matches

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

Won't falling oil prices always trigger a rebound in oil demand (and, by extension, an equally large bounce in carbon emissions)?

EM currencies overall have lost a third of their value since 2013 on a trade - weighted basis, triggered by serial downgrades to EM growth projections, a tightening of global dollar liquidity and falling oil prices.

Venezuela is mired in a deep economic crisis triggered mainly by a fall in crude oil prices and a drop in oil production.

While the world's billionaires have been suffering losses, oil prices rose to $ 48 a barrel yesterday as investors took advantage of a two - day slide in crude triggered by Brexit vote.

«It was well - identified by our models as having a high likelihood of reversing its downward trend from earlier in the year, and the recent catalyst of oil prices stabilizing and improving has triggered the appreciation,» he said.

Now Jad Mouawad charts the latest oil price spike, triggered in part by a rumor related to Iran.

The announcement, which comes as Shell is fighting to maintain its commitments on dividends (which it will increase by 5 per cent this year) and its core oil and gas business in the face of a more than $ 100 slide in the price of crude since last summer, triggered a furious response from green groups.

This can occur through (1) relocation of energy - intensive production in non-constrained regions; (2) increased consumption of fossil fuels in these regions through decline in the international price of oil and gas triggered by lower demand for these energies; and (3) changes in incomes (thus in energy demand) because of better terms of trade.

That rebuttal nicely sums up a lot of the accepted facts of unwavering peakoilers, e.g. that it's been conclusively shown that oil price hikes are linked to recession (not really; e.g. wrong macro policy responses to oil - led inflation often tried to tackle it by raising interest rates, which just compounded the problem and possibly triggered recession by itself; uncertainty in price is often more important to investment decisions that which direction it's going in, given that fuel costs are actually not a large % of overall costs.)