Is This The End Of The Commodities Super-Cycle?

The super cycle in commodities has come to an end, according to researchers at Citi, who downgraded several mining stocks on Monday as metals prices have continued to decline since the start of the year.

By MetalMiner: By Stuart Burns

Macquarie Private Wealth released its 2013 global outlook on Wednesday, predicting U.S. stocks would outperform Canadian stocks again this year and declaring the “resource price boom over.” The S&P/TSX Composite index has lagged behind the S&P 500 two years in a row now. In 2012, the index rose 7.2%, but trailed the S&P 500′s much more impressive 16% climb. Macquarie expects the gap to continue in 2013 as resource prices hold steady this year.

By MetalMiner: By Stuart Burns We and others in our industry write often about the impact on metal prices and supply as a result of rising demand in the emerging markets and, in particular, China. China has, without a doubt, been the largest single driver of metal prices over the last ten years as the country’s phenomenal growth, much of it investment-led, has sucked in mind-boggling quantities of iron ore, coal, base metals and other commodities.

By MetalMiner: By Stuart Burns It's good to see how wrong some captains of industry get things at times. Not, I hasten to add, out of any sense of schadenfreude, but simply because it makes us feel in good company.

By MetalMiner: by Stuart Burns

The Standard Chartered Bank in London recently released an interesting study called "