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Full coverage: Commodities

Food and fuel prices are coming down but nobody knows what happens next

Recent days have seen major components of inflation – energy, grain and freight prices – fall back to the levels seen before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yet market observers offer no guarantees that this will last.

Thomas Hubert
24th Jan, 2023 - 4 min read

For the first time in a long time, we are facing an old-school business cycle recession

Although inflation data and commodity markets point to less severe price hikes than initially feared, central banks are now on a tightening trajectory and equity markets are predicting a textbook recession.

Peter Kinsella
18th May, 2022 - 6 min read

Commodity shock – What Russia’s war means for commodity prices

Commodity prices are rising and they are going to continue to rise over the coming months. Forward-looking Western governments should secure whatever critical supplies they need sooner rather than later – in this situation, it is better to panic early than to panic when it is too late.

Peter Kinsella
9th Mar, 2022 - 5 min read

Moscow and the IFSC: How and why a Russian bank registered its €3bn commodities trading desk in Ireland

State-owned VTB Bank has spent the past seven years moving assets around Europe in the face of sanctions and Brexit. An investigation by The Currency reveals that its commodities business has landed in Ireland – at least on paper.

Thomas Hubert
2nd Feb, 2022 - 5 min read
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