| From Commodityonline.com: The year 2008 drew to a close with the metals market prices hitting multi-year lows. The highs and lows of this year for prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME), the world's largest and most-representative non-ferrous metals market, have been extreme beyond expectations.
Few, if any, participants foresaw the savageness of the fall from grace of commodities in general, not just the base metals, and all against the backdrop of a global recession that is perhaps the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s......Full Article: Source
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