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Bad news from China kicks off an unhappy New Year

Worries over China’s economy still look overdone to us, but today’s headlines are clearly unhelpful for sentiment towards industrial metals. More positively, the prices of crude oil and gold appear to have found a floor, albeit helped by renewed tensions in the Middle East.

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