Commodities shrug off the stronger dollar

Commodity price indices surged in May despite a jump in the US dollar. Oil prices got a boost from the re-imposition of US sanctions on Iran which threaten to reduce oil output by up to 1m bpd. However, we doubt that the impact on supply will be that large.

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