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    Goldman sees ‘bullish concoction’ for global commodities

    Extract from todays AFR……could apply to any materials portfolio by the sounds of it…all very bullish…but as we know the road can some be very bumpy….apologies for small print transfer.
    Jan 17, 2023 – 8.00am

    Commodities have the strongest outlook of any asset class in 2023, with a perfect macroeconomic environment and critically low inventories for almost every key raw material, according to the head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs.

    This year has started with a pullback in prices driven by a warm weather shock and rising interest rates, Jeff Currie said at a presentation in London on Monday. But demand in China is starting to rebound and there’s insufficient investment in supply, meaning the year as a whole will be a “Goldilocks” moment for rising prices, he said.

    Goldman Sachs has lifted its aluminum price forecasts in 2023. Peter Rae

    “You cannot come up with a more bullish concoction for commodities,” Mr Currie said. “Lack of supply is apparent in every single market you look at, whether it is inventories at critical operating levels or production capacity exhausted.”

    Mr Currie sees parallels with the record run-up in commodities prices from 2007 to 2008. The only exception, he said, was European natural gas, where inventories look sufficient to get through this year.

    Goldman raised its price forecasts for aluminum on Sunday, citing higher demand in Europe and China could lead to supply shortages. The bank predicted a multiyear commodities supercycle in late 2020 as years of under-investment prevent supply from keeping pace with demand.


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    Yet oil has had a rocky start to 2023, capped by fears over a potential recession in the US and China’s shaky progress in reopening its economy from COVID-related lockdowns. Traders are also tracking the impact of sanctions on Russian oil and product flows. Brent crude futures traded near $84 a barrel in London.

    Natural gas prices in Europe dropped to the lowest since September 2021 on Monday, despite the arrival of a cold snap, as liquefied natural gas continued to flood into the continent due to lack of competition from China, where stockpiles of the fuel are full.

    This could all change later in the year if a robust recovery in Chinese demand combines with the end of interest-rate increases in major Western economies, Mr Currie said.

    “Does anyone remember what happened to oil prices from January of ’07 to July of ’08?” Mr Currie said. “The Fed takes their foot off the brake, China puts the pedal to the metal, Europe starts to grow quickly” and oil prices rose by $100 a barrel,” he said.

 
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