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The Potential Risk Of China's Large And Growing Presence In Commodities Markets Jun 11 Product Image

The Potential Risk Of China's Large And Growing Presence In Commodities Markets Jun 11

  • Published: June 2011
  • Standard & Poors

Abstract
China has been pushing the global economy forward with seemingly unstoppable force over the past decade. In recent years the country sustained well-above-average GDP growth and leap-frogged Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, after the U.S. China's growth as a consumer of commodities, particularly for the past three years, has had dramatic ripple effects across world commodities markets--straining supplies, causing prices to soar, spurring production capacity expansion projects, and setting in motion a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). And this has all occurred despite the still-anemic pace of recovery in most of the major developed economies. Surging commodities prices, in turn, have bolstered the financial performance of rated commodities-producing companies. (Watch the related CreditMatters TV segment titled, "China?s...

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