| Remember the commodity super-cycle? It was pedaled by the Chinese. It made smart investors like Jim Rogers filthy rich. That story is over, as everyone now knows. And the next five years are going to bring huge changes to the country’s demand for raw materials, especially coal and oil.
China’s commodity demand is in transition, says Barclays Capital’s commodity research team led by Kevin Norrish in London. What’s taking place of China’s raw materials appetite is “a less investment driven, more consumer-led economy that is not as competitive in global manufacturing, but less polluting.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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