Recent developments in commodity markets

With few exceptions, the overall situation of imbalance between supply and demand which has put downward pressure on prices of internationally-traded primary commodities since the beginning of the 1980s, continued to prevail in 1986. There was, however, a recovery in the markets of a very limited number of commodities, which brought about a modest improvement in the overall price index of nonoil primary commodities.

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