Renewed sell offs in oil and metals are hitting equities hard this week. Further sell-offs in commodities, risks rising global fear of China's slowdown and demand drop for commodities.
WTI benchmark has dropped to $41.4/barrel today and further sustained drop risks major investments in the oil sector made in the wake of easy monetary policies. Brent is much better performer than WTI benchmark. Brent-WTI spread, since last night rose close to 43% to trade around $4/barrel.
Copper price has dropped to new six year low today, at $2.15/pound, lowest level since financial crisis. Some analysts are viewing this as rising concern over fast forward slowdown in demand from China and slowdown might be getting steeper, especially in industrial sectors.
Equities are down globally, feeding to risk aversion, though the panic level is still nowhere near to that of August or September, last year.
S&P 500 future is already down below 2050 area, against our forecast for higher prices trading at 2047.
Continued sell-offs at this point seems likely which might give rise to deeper risk aversion.


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