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Commodities spring into life

Commodity prices had another strong month in March, supported by some weakness in the US dollar and the ongoing improvement in investor sentiment towards riskier assets. Tentative signs of a pick-up in China’s activity indicators also lent more fundamental support to industrial commodity prices. That said, having underperformed in February, some of the largest price gains last month were for agricultural commodities.

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