The upside risks to our 2021 price forecasts

We think that industrial metals prices will ease back in 2021 primarily because we expect growth in China’s demand to slow. However, we acknowledge that there are some upside risks to our price forecasts, including the possibility that metals demand growth holds up better than we expect.

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