| The commodities supercycle is probably ending this year as China’s economic growth slows and the nation focuses less on infrastructure and urbanization, Citigroup Inc. said.
This year will probably signal “death bells” for the supercycle, or a longer-than-average period of rising prices, Citigroup said in a report dated yesterday, reiterating similar calls made last month and in 2011. The Standard & Poor’s GSCI gauge of 24 raw materials is down 2.1 percent this year, after an almost fourfold advance since the end of 2001...................................Full Article: Source
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