Bloomberg, 12:36:30.828 GMT 05-Jan-2009
By Mark Herlihy
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — Steel demand won’t recover before the second half and annual contract prices for iron ore will decline 20 to 40 percent, Fitch Ratings said.
Prices for steel and the raw materials used to make it may improve before then, Monica M. Bonar and Sean T. Sexton, analysts [...]

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The Wall Street Journal 02-Jan-2009
By Carolyn Cui
The wild gyrations in commodities last year were a brutal reminder of how volatile and dicey this market can be, especially when the economy turns sour.
It was a classic boom-to-bust cycle. Prices that seemed to defy gravity in the first half had trouble finding a floor later in the [...]

The Northern Miner 30-Dec-2008
By Ron Mandel
While TD Bank sees the commodities market starting to rebound in the second half of 2009, followed by more pronounced price increases in 2010, the World Bank believes that, over the long term, commodity prices will remain substantially below recent bull market highs.
“The commodity market boom has come to [...]

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The Globe and Mail, p. B12 378 words 12-Dec-2008
By Allan Robinson
The U.S. dollar tumbled yesterday between 1 and 4.7 per cent against the world’s major currencies and that could be good for U.S.-dollar-denominated commodity prices.
The main beneficiary of the swing during the past few days has been gold, which is once again trading above $800 [...]