| The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said global commodities prices have already touched inflexion points and are now on a downward path. The central bank’s statement is based on data on commodity prices, both energy and non-energy, for the past five decades. “Since 1894, four super cycles have been identified, with the last starting in the late 1990s and attributed to rapid and sustained industrialisation and urbanisation in China and other emerging economies,” RBI said.
In the latest commodity super cycle, inflation adjusted prices of commodities rose 60-500 per cent between 1999 and 2010. Oil price rose 467 per cent, metals 202 per cent and the prices of agricultural commodities 77 per cent, the steepest price increases among the four commodity super cycles (after adjusting for inflation)...............................................Full Article: Source
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