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Commodities unfazed by US monetary tightening

Yesterday’s US rate hike was widely anticipated, but we expect the Fed to accelerate the pace of tightening in 2017. That said, US interest rates will remain historically low and, in any case, other factors will probably continue to be more important drivers of commodities prices.

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