Sentences with phrase «weak commodity prices»

Investors in BHP Billiton Ltd. sent the stock down the most in more than three years in London yesterday after the world's biggest mining company chose to retain cash because of weaker commodity prices.

The declines came mainly because weak commodity prices hurt the contribution of Dundee's resource holdings.

Combine that with weak commodity prices, flat global trade and the governance risk associated with companies in many of these countries, and safety - minded investors are perhaps best served by limiting their exposure to the grouping at this time.

«The question is what are weak commodity prices telling us: Is it overinvestment in the past, or signaling a weaker global economy forward?

The combination of a strong dollar and weak commodity prices led to sizeable depreciations of the currencies of net commodity exporters.

Weak commodity prices in the late 1990s, together with consolidation in the global mining industry, appear also to have caused a global downturn in mining investment around that time; total resource - related investment in the US, Canada and South Africa declined (and was relatively flat in China), though the downturn was much less pronounced than in Australia.

The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed market and emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed market stocks would underperform U.S. stocks in 2017.

The company said that the relative weakening of the Australian dollar and higher value - added product mix assisted Bega Cheese's export consumer - packaged goods business to increase revenue by 2.7 % in 1H FY2016, despite weak commodity prices and strong global competition.

INVESTORS and dairy farmers are bracing for the worst from Murray Goulburn as weak commodity prices, rising debts and the soaring dollar look set to savage the co-operative's earnings and milk price forecasts.

The emphasis on business investment is significant because Poloz had been skeptical about the extent to which Canadian executives were ready to re-engage after years of weak commodity prices and mediocre demand.

In combination, these factors formed a negative feedback loop, which reinforced disinflationary pressures, as they transmitted via trade linkages, FX and weaker commodity prices.

Weak commodity prices have helped to pull down the shares of four of the five detractors.

«These developments, together with market concerns about the future performance of the Chinese economy, are having spillovers to other economies through trade channels and weaker commodity prices, as well as through diminishing confidence and increasing volatility in financial markets.»

Weak commodity prices have depressed the currencies of commodity - producers Canada and Australia over the past year.

-LRB-...) So how is it that a weak economy like Australia, which is weighed by a severe slowdown in mining investment, low confidence and weak commodity prices, can have an inflation problem?

This reflects stronger economic activity in B.C.'s south coast as labour markets in other regions have tempered due to weak commodity prices and negative spillover from Alberta's economic slowdown.

Weaker commodity prices and Australian dollar and the chance of even lower interest rates are likely to have a positive impact on Australian...

Latin America: The performance of carriers in Latin America is weak on the back of the deepening economic crisis in Brazil, weak commodity prices and adverse currency fluctuations.

But weak commodity prices have slowed its economic growth and the controversial leadership of former president Jacob Zuma has zapped business confidence.

The cause includes all the usual suspects: weak economic reports in the U.S. and abroad, weak commodity prices, and Fed comments.