What would a Greek euro exit mean for commodities?

Our central forecasts for industrial commodity prices already reflect some of the potential fall-out from a Greek euro exit. In particular, the economic and financial uncertainty is one of several factors behind our low end-2012 forecasts for copper ($6,000 per tonne) and Brent crude ($95 per barrel).

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