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Prices of industrial commodities may finally be bottoming out

Looking past the day-to-day volatility, the prices of many industrial commodities – including oil and base metals – appear to be finding a floor. This is at least consistent with our relatively positive outlook for the rest of 2016, although we are wary of leaping to any firm conclusions about the state of demand.

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