Using Commodity Price Forecasting as a Strategic Tool in Procurement Planning (PPT)

摘要

Scotiabank's Commodity Price Index rose to a near-term peak in April 2011 -just prior to financial market concern over excessive Eurozone sovereign debt and the negative impact on global economic growth. The subsequent decline in commodity prices from April 2011 to December 2012 at -19.8% was less than half the slide during the 2008 recession.