The ten year-old commodity supercycle, triggered by rising demand in booming emerging markets, “has come to a clear and abrupt end” as the price of oil has been halved, a report from Deutsche Banks says. While other commodities have been heading south for some time, it is the fall in the price of oil, however, that appears to be sealing a sea change in thought regarding the end of the commodity supercycle. Commodity supercycle: Commodity Price Indices reached their lowest levels since 2010 The report from Josef Auer and Lorenz Vignold-Majal, notes that the Commodity Price Indices compiled by Germany’s Hamburg…
Commodity Supercycle Could Be Over Says Deutsche Bank
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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