| Commodity markets were dragged lower on Monday by data showing the weakest growth in China’s economy since the financial crisis, sparking fears of a deepening slowdown in the world’s largest consumer of raw materials.
Oil and base metals prices were the among the biggest fallers, with Brent, the international crude benchmark, falling amuch as 3 per cent back below $50 a barrel, while copper and aluminium lost 1 per cent and 1.5 per cent to $5,201 a tonne and $1,554 a tonne respectively. The Bloomberg commodity index, a broad basket of 22 commodity futures, fell 0.7 per cent...............................................Full Article: Source
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