China’s fiscal vagueness sinks commodity prices

The pledge at this weekend’s press conference to increase fiscal expenditure could support China’s commodity demand over the first half of 2025. But at this stage, none of the fiscal or monetary policy announcements over the past month suggest that commodity demand is about to surge, and we continue to expect most industrial commodity prices to fall back by the end of next year.

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