COMMODITIES

The year 2021 started with increased activity in trading and a record number of concluded transactions on GET Baltic gas exchange. 

Analysts at S&P Global Platts released their 2021 energy outlook. The outlook presumes a recovery in global gross domestic product (GDP), highlighted by an acceleration of growth in the second half of 2021. 

Despite the strong quarter-on-quarter recovery in mine and recycle supply, the stellar rebound in automotive demand and sustained strong investment demand for precious metals, including platinum, lifted Q3’20 platinum demand well above supply, leaving the quarter in a def

Global gold demand dropped by 19% y-o-y to 892t in Q3, as consumers continued to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the lowest quarterly total since Q3 2009.

The 2020 OPEC World Oil Outlook (WOO) was launched on Thursday (Oct. 8) in Vienna, Austria.

Global oil demand is unlikely to return to pre-crisis until 2022, following the biggest downturn in oil market history,  the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported on Tuesday.

As more Indian stayed home because of COVID-19, food prices surged by as much as 20% in the first four weeks since the government announced a national lockdown on March 24. 

Global demand for gold increased 1% annually to reach 1,083.8 tonnes in the first three tumultuous months of 2020, as worries over a world economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic drove investors to the safe-haven metal.

Oil prices plunged over 30% on Monday (March 9)  suffering the biggest decline since the 1991 Gulf War, following a collapse in talks between Saudi Arabia and Russia at the OPEC+ meeting in Vienna last week.

Prices of copper, an indicator of the global economy’s health, have plunged more than 12% this year, as a deadly coronavirus outbreak in China has led to a shutdown in the country's key manufacturing regions.