Commodity prices are mostly falling on the first day of trading in 2019 as China’s December PMIs showed that the economy finished 2018 on a weak note. While the authorities are loosening policy, we only expect the economy to stabilise by mid-year, which will be a factor weighing on all commodity prices but particularly the industrial metals.
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