Oil up on supply outages, metals down on demand fears

The stronger US dollar and renewed concerns about the robustness of the credit-led recovery in China’s economy weighed on metals prices this week. However, oil benefited from the disruptions to supply from Canada and Nigeria, while the prices of grains and soybeans were lifted by what the markets read as a bullish WASDE report.


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