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Resurrecting commodity prices?

PublicationNatural resources
18 April 2019, 2:00 am

This year the CRB-index has risen by 10%. But over the past month the pace in growth of the index deteriorated slowly. Since mid-March, the CRB-index increased by only 1.4% until now. As we discussed in our previous Monthly Commodity Insights (March 2019), the trade talk narrative still has a positive impact on most commodity prices, but price gains become smaller.

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