No relief for prices yet

Oil prices plummeted in March under the weight of a collapse in demand and pledges from OPEC+ members to significantly raise output. Most other commodity prices also fell last month as the COVID-19 virus spread from Asia to Europe and the US. We think there is little upside to prices while the virus-containment measures remain in place.

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