Metals that will shine in 2019

This year has not been kind to commodities, says Marina Gerner. 2019 could well be different.

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Nickel prices look "unsustainably low"

2018 has not been kind to commodities. The S&P GSCI Industrial Metals index has slipped by 15% this year. Demand from China has dwindled; the dollar has strengthened; and concern over slowing economic growth has fostered bearishness. However, there have been bright spots, while some metals look poised to shine next year as solid fundamentals overcome the lacklustre overall backdrop.

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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.

Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Her first book, The Vagina Business, deals with the potential of “femtech” to transform women’s lives, and will be published by Icon Books in September 2024.

Marina is trilingual and lives in London.