The anatomy of a supercycle

History shows that supercycles are usually demand-driven, and that the performance of individual commodity prices has varied hugely both within and between past supercycles. In addition, supercycles can temporarily give way to shorter-run boom/bust cycles. All of this underpins our view that the recent rally in commodity prices is a short-run cyclical upturn, not the start of a new supercycle.

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