Industrial commodity prices are expected to weaken in the second half of 2008
Jul 16th, 2008 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
After strong growth in early 2008, the markets for many industrial raw materials are expected to cool. As a result, prices (as measured by the Economist Intelligence Unit's Industrial Raw Materials (IRM) price index) will fall by an average of 0.3% in 2008 as a whole.