Commodities hit the skids

Emerging-market jitters have spilled over into the commodities markets, hitting prices of everything from copper to oil, while lower economic growth in emerging markets could cool demand for raw materials.

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"A bitter cocktail of events has come together" for commodities, Mark Hansen of Concord Resources told the Financial Times. For one thing, emerging-market jitters have spilled over into the commodities markets, hitting prices of everything from copper to oil. Traders worry that lower economic growth in emerging markets will cool demand for raw materials.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

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