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Prices still searching for the bottom

Commodity prices continued to fall in February as the coronavirus, which started in China, spread to most other regions of the world and sparked fears of a slowdown in global economic activity. We have revised down our forecasts of commodities demand and prices in the first half of this year, but expect policy loosening, in particular, to be a factor giving a lift to prices later in 2020.

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