| From Theglobeandmail.com: While members of the Group of Seven nations have been nursing the wounds of their battered economies, emerging markets such as China have steered a wide range of commodity prices to summer highs. Growing overseas demand for resources such as potash and aluminum brought the price of commodities up by 4 per cent in July - to a record high for the seventh month in a row.
China spent this summer in the world's spotlight as host of the Olympic Games, but also exhibited its economic muscle through its influence on many of July's commodity prices..... Full Article: Source
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