Despite impressive gains from coffee to gold, a key gauge of raw material prices ended up being close to an average year for performance. The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index — which tracks 24 ...

(Bloomberg) — A basket of the world’s key commodities rose in 2024 ... with bullion prices declining from an all-time high as investors redirected money elsewhere, including equities and Bitcoin.

Prices rebounded.­ Global demand for base metals, for example, surpassed precrisis peaks during the first quarter of 2010 (see Chart 2 ... increase in commodity demand. The high cost of developing ...