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Re:The Shipping News Suggests Economic Weakness by rdlecler1 on Saturday January 30, 2016 @09:50AM (#11001958)
China had an outsized affect on comkodity demand, at the same time capacity has been over built for many years. For oil, obviously the US resurgence has been a huge factor, and for food crops they had a couple of very very good years globally (and new land has been brought online).
Re:The Shipping News Suggests Economic Weakness by ihsw on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:09AM (#11002049)
Several currencies are sliding down against the USD (for a variety of reasons).

Food crops may be good but food prices are the first thing to spike when inflation spikes, and many nations have seen food prices climb ~20% across the board without parallel increases in wages and salaries. This is not good.