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China’s Infrastructure Spending To Push Prices Of Base Metals Higher In 2021
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Robust demand recovery amid gradual supply increase is expected to push base metal prices higher on a year-on-year basis in 2021.
However, increasing environmental concerns and emission targets are likely to lift the global cost curves across metals.
"Geo-political relations and currency movements are also likely to be the key drivers for metal prices," India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said in a report.
"The current strong global commodity demand is stemming from a continued strong Chinese demand while other economies are also making a comeback from the pandemic-related impacts."
Notably, China, which has a lion's share of global consumption of key commodities, is likely to witness a strong demand over 2021 on the back of a continued government-led infrastructure spending.
"Also, sustainability and decarbonisation efforts are likely to lead to capacity curtailments."
In addition, it said that logistical and supply chain management remains an issue and also supports cost inflation.
"However, the tight demand-supply equation in 1H21 is likely to ease in 2H21."
The story has been published via a syndicated feed, only the headline has been changed
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