Sentences with phrase «weakness in commodity prices»

On the contrary, some were dead on by predicting stable short - term interest rates, another strong year for US stocks, and weakness in commodity prices.

The emerging markets crisis, strength in the dollar, and weakness in commodity prices could frustrate the Fed's expectations that inflation will rise back closer to 2 %.

It pointed to the continued presence of fragile fixed - income market liquidity as a key vulnerability in the overall financial system, while it repeats the risks of a sharp increase in long - term interest rates, stress from emerging markets like China and prolonged weakness in commodity prices.

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The reports looked strong at first, but looking under the hood, Cramer was very concerned by the weakness he saw: Kimberly - Clark, for one, is facing pricing challenges, rising commodity costs and a slumping diaper business in what had once been its best growth market: China.

Canada's weaknesses as a trading nation were exposed; first by the weak recovery in the U.S., and then by the collapse of commodity prices starting in 2014.

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.

Unfortunately, the weakness in producer prices (as well as industrial commodity prices) is essentially a reflection of soft demand.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

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).

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.

While the decision to leave the EU has caused notable market upheaval, global market declines were actually more extreme in the first few months of 2016 due to significant commodity price weakness, concerns regarding slowed economic growth in the U.S. and China, and monetary decisions by major central banks.

The signs of economic weakness in China contributed to a steep drop in the prices of global commodities as well.

As part of the downside risks, they include the possibility of further increases in oil and commodity prices; a stronger - than - anticipated slowdown in China; the unsettled fiscal situation in the United States and Japan; and the renewed weakness in housing markets in many OECD countries.

Despite the continued weakness in commodity markets, the further decline in the Australian dollar against the major international currencies has meant that, in domestic - currency terms, commodity prices have remained roughly stable in recent months.

Overall, world prices for many of the commodities that Australia exports have held fairly steady over the past few years, despite the weakness in the world economy.

The concentration meant last year that the S&P / TSX composite index suffered due to weakness in oil and other commodity prices.

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