Prices face selling pressure on China woes
London
COMMODITY prices faced some heavy selling last week as the spotlight fell on the impact of China's stock market crash, while uncertainty over Greece added to the downward pressure. "The idea that a stock market crash could put a hole in China's economy and reduce demand from the world's biggest resource-consumer is adding to the pain for commodities," said CMC Markets analyst Jasper Lawler.
With prices already downbeat, the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Friday forecast that global oil demand growth would slow in 2016, and that crude production in nations outside the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would stall.
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