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Commodity cycles stem from long investment lead times, rigid short-run supply and demand sensitive to the macro backdrop. Accumulated imbalances often take years to resolve, making these cycles both persistent and hard to forecast.
Inventory levels are the main stabilisation mechanism between rigid commodity supply and volatile demand. When reserves erode, every marginal shock translates directly into prices, regardless of underlying fundamentals.
Marginal cost anchors commodity prices over the long run, but inertia, lead times and inventory dynamics allow market prices to deviate persistently. This analysis examines the conditions under which such gaps remain sustainable.
Commodities are physical inputs constrained by geological, agricultural and energy realities. Their prices reflect imperfect adjustments between rigid supply, financial demand and expectations, with structural lags that explain persistent volatility.
Energy, metal, and agricultural commodities follow distinct logics: physical nature, storage costs, demand elasticity, and financial depth shape divergent cycles within a single complex.
