The economic slowdown, it seems, has not affected the commodity market. Recently, institutions, hedge funds and individuals have fueled the surge in commodity market in metal and non metal sectors. A weaker dollar, lower interest rates and inflation fears are added factors. Even with lot of indicators suggesting the US economy is slowing there has not been any accompanying slowdown in commodity prices, according to Barclays Capital.lt has noted that the supply side concerns have contributed to price strength and driven gold, platinum and other prices to all-time highs this week. Also a shift has seen developing nations contributing to commodity demand growth at the same time as supply constraints are increasing.
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