It is not the bottom for miners!

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From PIMCO via Bloomberg:

The worst of the collapse in commodities prices is probably over, with oil poised to gain over the next 12 months, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. Just don’t expect a major rebound.

Producers are shelving projects and scaling back output from Arctic oilfields to Indian aluminum mills amid the weakest returns from raw materials since 1999. While the response may help draw a line under the rout, prices are set to remain “lower for longer” because of excess inventories, according to the firm that manages $US15 billion in commodity assets.

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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.