Commodity Supercycle Could Be Over Says Deutsche Bank

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 Institute of International Economics (HWWI) have...