Today’s flash manufacturing PMIs for China and the euro-zone have both improved, but they remain at relatively low levels. Other recent data suggest that China’s recovery still lacks momentum and that the euro-zone recession is deepening, while today’s Tankan survey from Japan was much worse than expected. This backdrop is hardly conducive to sustained increases in commodity prices.
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