根据IHS Markit Material Price指数(MPI),经过漫长的下降,上周商品价格上涨了很小的上升。总体价格上涨了1.3%,十个组成部分中有八个正在上涨。

IHS Markit的高级经济学家威廉·梅(William May)说:“石油是上周的大故事。”石油出口国(OPEC)的组织会议后,石油上涨了18.3%,该组织表明对全球石油过度供应采取了行动。由于迹象表明美国锁定可能比预期的要早,木材也显着上涨了11.5%。纤维价格在下滑七个星期后上涨了6.2%,而铁线价格上涨了0.7%。

"Improving market sentiment is keying off encouraging signs in several countries that the number of new COVID-19 cases are slowing," May says, but cautions that "we may be nearing a bottom, but conditions will be far from normal for some time yet."