Sentences with phrase «retreats in commodity prices»

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Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

Commodities and Natural Resource Equities were some of the weaker performers in the first quarter as oil prices retreated by about 7.5 %.

With the dollar having recently risen to a new seven - month high, commodity prices are in retreat.