The commodity price indices have risen in the last month, encouraged by rising oil prices and by a scaling back of expectations for US interest rate rises which in turn has weakened the dollar. But industrial metals prices came under pressure more recently on mixed data out of China, while the price of gold has benefitted from renewed safe-haven demand due in part to “Brexit” fears.
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