Commodities, metals sliding for weeks
25 April 2012, 1:44 pm
The prices of key commodities, base metals, oil and cotton have fallen by 7-20 per cent from their recent highs in February this year. Prices of nickel, tin and aluminium have declined 13-20 per cent. Zinc, lead and copper have corrected by six to eight per cent and prices of Brent crude (oil) and cotton are down by six to nine per cent.