The tightening of global monetary policy over the next few years represents a headwind to commodity prices, especially precious metals. However, the reduction in equilibrium interest rates over the past decade means that central banks will not need to raise rates very far. As a result, the impact on commodity prices of monetary policy tightening should be outweighed by fundamental demand and supply factors.
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