The apparent thaw in US-China trade relations gave most industrial commodity prices a lift, but we have seen these sort of ‘goodwill’ gestures before and doubt that the two sides are any closer to resolving their underlying differences. One commodity price that bucked the otherwise positive trend this week was oil, which eased back as the IEA warned that the oil market could be in a large surplus in early 2020.
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