| That the commodities supercycle is over is obvious: we can see that just by looking at the falling values of pretty much all of the commodities. However, there’s a number of implications of this being bandied about which are wrong. It’s not, for example, slowing growth in China which has killed it, nor will it be the Federal Reserve raising interest rates which gives it the final death blow.
It’s much more accurate to say that the producing companies, like say Rio Tinto or Vale in iron ore, which have killed off the cycle. And as a result of that we can’t quite say that falling commodity prices are symptoms of the global economy about to fall over into depression...............................................Full Article: Source
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