today's newspaper26 Mar 2022 11:17
"China’s Worsening Virus Threatens Commodities Supply and Demand"
"Widespread outages at metals processors, for example, could further lift markets that have already hit record highs in recent weeks because of the war in Ukraine".
"There’s also a flow-on risk for other commodities markets. Coal is China’s mainstay fuel and a key determinant of metals prices, which will only strengthen if the cost of production rises because of scarcity of the fuel".