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Factoring a vaccine into our 2021 forecasts

The prospect of effective COVID-19 vaccines has prompted us to raise our forecast of global economic activity in 2021, which has positive implications for commodity demand. We think oil demand and prices, in particular, will rise sharply next year. But the current rally in industrial metals prices should fizzle out.

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