Who to listen to on commodities

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The AFR has debate today on the outlook for commodities:

“People are nervous and locating money away from resources, especially as resource companies have been running hard,” said Stephane Andre, portfolio manager at Alphinity Investment Management.

…Mr Andre said investors have turned more cautious on the commodities sector as they fret that the outlook for the Chinese economy has deteriorated following the release of softer purchasing managers index data for June and after the lowering of the reserve requirement ratio for Chinese banks.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.