Africa and the Global Commodity Markets
Guinea’s bauxite, Moroccan phosphates, Nigerian Bonny Light, Zambian copper, Côte d'Ivoire’s cocoa, Ethiopian coffee or Madagascar’s vanilla:...
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2016: rebound year for hard commodities?
After registering significant declines in 2015, the prices of non-renewable commodities rebounded during the first four months of 2016 resulting in a...
Potash: a typical price war
A growing world population, changing food demand favoring protein, and limited agricultural supply under the assumption of constant returns: these...
A chequered African history of commodity markets. Part II: cocoa
Among commodities, cocoa occupies a special place, probably because this base product for chocolate is associated, in the collective psyche, with...
The development of the liquefied natural gas spot market: origin and implications
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At what level will the oil price be in a month, six months, or one year? This question, as fundamental and haunting as it may be, wrongly dominates...
Sovereign Stabilization Funds and the End of the Commodities Super-cycle: What are the Challenges?
In the mid 2000s, the media and political spheres discovered what they though to be a new type of investor coming mostly from the Gulf countries and...
A chequered African history of commodity markets, part one: bauxite and aluminium
History has always been patterned by commodities, from the early Iron or Bronze Ages to the silk road, from the Gold rush to the late shale gas...
The roller-coaster ride of Chinese commodity markets
To no-one’s surprise, the Chinese equity markets have recently plummeted, putting an end to a tremendous increase over the past year and more. Indeed...