| The pain from the rout in global commodity prices is sweeping through nations from Brazil to South Africa. The biggest beneficiary? Arguably it's China, the nation often blamed for driving prices lower due to its slowing economic growth. China's annual savings from the commodities rout amount to $US460 billion, according to calculations by Kenneth Courtis, former Asia vice chairman at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
About $US320 billion of that is from cheaper oil, with the rest from other energy, metals, coal and agricultural commodities. Benefits are rippling through the economy, pushing down or steadying prices of everything from home heating and petrol prices to the cost of raw materials at factories. That's also boosting China's efforts to recalibrate its economic growth model away from a reliance on heavy industries and investment toward consumption and services...............................................Full Article: Source
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