While fiscal stimulus could provide some short-term support to metals prices, the key issue is that China's troubles are structural. So, China's metals demand probably won't be in a much healthier position by the end of next year. Accordingly, we still expect that most industrial metals prices will fall further over the next couple of years. Meanwhile, we do not think that the effects of Hurricane Milton alter the outlook for global oil and gas prices.
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