He announced a review into the way the industry stands up to severe weather and fluctuations in prices, saying farm businesses had to be "effective and resilient".
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This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.
They are usually long-term investors and are not required to mark their positions to market, so they have been able to weather day-to-day fluctuations in prices better than leveraged hedge funds.
Thus if you are going to make the case that the government should smooth policy based fluctuations in prices, then you should make the general case that the government should use subsidies to smooth other prices for businesses.
The stock owner should not be too concerned with erratic fluctuations in stock prices.
There would be more investment--more steady investment--if there weren't such violent fluctuations in oil prices.
The other lines have tended to cancel out except at times of very marked fluctuations in energy prices.
The sector so far continues to be less influenced by Wall Street's headaches than by fluctuations in oil prices.
An ambitious diversification programme, to reduce dependence on natural resources and hence vulnerability to fluctuations in commodity prices, has been put in place.
The finances of nuclear stations with their huge upfront capital costs make such delays very costly, and leave plants vulnerable to fluctuations in power prices.
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The Trulia Price Monitor also accounts for the regular seasonal fluctuations in asking prices in order to reveal the underlying trend in prices.
That may be a good thing: the mine typically accounts for one-sixth of Mongolia's tax revenues, and fluctuations in copper prices deliver devastating shocks to the economy.
The economy is heavily dependent upon the export of six commodities - sugar, gold, bauxite, shrimp, timber, and rice - which represent nearly 60% of the country's GDP and are highly susceptible to adverse weather conditions and fluctuations in commodity prices.
Sufficient refinery capacity has as much influence on gasoline prices as fluctuations in the price of oil so if Americans want stable gasoline prices and almost no dependence on oil from outside North America, we need more refineries.
The company is insulated from fluctuations in the spot market for juice, especially from Napa and Sonoma, where prices have zoomed of late.
While platinum prices have fallen in dollar terms over the last few months, fluctuations in the foreign-exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and South African rand have actually meant South African mining companies are effectively receiving a higher payment for their metal, Tremblay said.
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Because the government mandates everything from train times to many ticket prices, operators of railway lines have few levers to pull in response to market fluctuations.
The price fluctuations of 2007-09 suggested that uncertainty in the world of agriculture was deepening under the influence both of oil prices and capital flows.
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