Not exact matches
Overall, the global outlook has
weakened further over the last six months — exacerbated by China's relative slowdown, lower
commodity prices, and the prospect of financial tightening
for many countries.
Three key headwinds
for EM assets have abated lately, with a
weakening U.S. dollar, a rebound in
commodity prices and a recovering Chinese economy.
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.
Asian stocks reached
for new all - time highs on Monday, as the US dollar continued to
weaken, boosting both
commodity prices and US export - driven industries.
I have been nibbling on this stock
for the past few months as it too had a difficult 2015 with falling
commodity prices hurting ethanol sales, along with a strong dollar and
weakened overseas economies reducing demand
for ADM products.
2015 has been a rough year
for this heavy machinery company as
weakened economies in Asia and Europe saw less demand
for CAT products as well as depressed
commodity prices affecting sales as mining activity has been curbed.
Environmentalists blamed last year's changes to the country's code
for the increase, but other analysts pointed to other factors including a
weakening real, lack of incentives
for farmers and ranchers to curb deforestation, and rising
commodity prices.
Because of low oil
prices and
weakened commodity prices generally, resource exploitation, the motor of economic growth
for the Conservatives, is slowing down.
For example, a side effect of a rising dollar and thereby
weakening commodity prices, is that EM currencies such as the Brazilian Real and Russian Rubble suffer.