Home VHS: Trends in Commodities

With the reverberations from the Gulf War waning...

... the commodities market has resumed a period of slow but steady growth.

Gold hovers around $350 per troy ounce.

The collapse in copper prices is leveling off...

... due to a lack of new ore discoveries, and increasing demand...

... in India and China are helping prices stabilise.

Crude oil prices have also stabilised after the Gulf War.

The reconstruction of agriculture in the former Soviet Union...

... is increasing demand for wheat and other grains...

... but this is likely to peak in the coming year...