We expect worries about the escalating US-China trade war and prospects for the global economy to continue to drive metals prices in the coming months. Precious metals are benefitting from the uncertainty, but there have been renewed falls in industrial metals. Our forecast of a further slowdown in global growth should cause most industrial metals prices to drop even lower this year. Meanwhile, prices of precious metals look set to remain elevated, but their recent rally looks overdone.
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