Oil prices peaking?

The support to commodity prices from the general improvement in investor confidence, which had been fostered earlier in the first quarter by better economic data from the US and China and the ECB’s generous liquidity provisions, faded in March. Iran tensions aside, the macroeconomic backdrop suggests that oil prices in particular are unsustainably high.

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