Most commodity prices rose this week despite a sharp appreciation of the US dollar. The latest data on Chinese trade, released today, show that commodity import volumes jumped in January but this could be largely due to seasonal effects since the Chinese New Year holiday fell much earlier this
year. Elsewhere, a strike at the world’s largest copper mine in Chile sent copper futures soaring today.
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