What can China’s equities tell us about commodities?

We do not think that the latest slump in China’s equity prices will make a meaningful difference to the country’s commodity demand. However, it does suggest that investors are coming round to our long-held view that the economy is set to slow in 2018, with negative implications for most commodity prices.

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