2000s commodities boom

The 2000s commodities boom, commodities super cycle or China boom was the rise of many physical <a href="/facts/Commodity/zD0Em9v7">commodity</a> prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, <a href="/facts/Chemicals/EWcXU41d">chemicals</a> and <a href="/facts/Fuel/H8DIRL1j">fuels</a>) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s. The boom was largely due to the rising demand from <a href="/facts/Emerging_markets/DAdHmQnE">emerging markets</a> such as the <a href="/facts/BRIC/LCb1FoAP">BRIC</a> countries, particularly China during the period from 1992 to 2013, as well as the result of concerns over long-term supply availability. There was a sharp down-turn in prices during 2008 and early 2009 as a result of the <a href="/facts/2008_financial_crisis/qw8n1pSN">credit crunch</a> and <a href="/facts/European_debt_crisis/lWMvbhYH">European debt crisis</a>, but prices began to rise as demand recovered from late 2009 to mid-2010.
Oil began to slip downwards after mid-2010, but peaked at $101.80 on 30 and 31 January 2011, as the <a href="/facts/Egyptian_revolution_of_2011/gnr0mnJe">Egyptian revolution of 2011</a> broke out, leading to concerns over both the safe use of the <a href="/facts/Suez_Canal/1zYoNryp">Suez Canal</a> and overall security in <a href="/facts/Arabia/x1fDka2b">Arabia</a> itself. On 3 March, Libya's National Oil Corp said that output had halved due to the departure of foreign workers. As this happened, <a href="/facts/Brent_Crude/GgG5gk6Y">Brent Crude</a> surged to a new high of above $116.00 a barrel as supply disruptions and potential for more unrest in the Middle East and North Africa continued to worry investors. Thus the <a href="/facts/Price_of_oil/hRnlD8Hn">price of oil</a> kept rising into the 2010s. The commodities <a href="/facts/Supercycle/JWQY0jQ6">supercycle</a> peaked in 2011, "driven by a combination of strong demand from emerging nations and low supply growth". Prior to 2002, only 5 to 10 per cent of trading in the commodities market was attributable to investors. Since 2002 "30 per cent of trading is attributable to investors in the commodities market" which "has caused higher price <a href="/facts/Volatility_(finance)/mCdus1MW">volatility</a>".
The 2000s commodities boom is comparable to the commodity supercycles which accompanied <a href="/facts/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_economic_expansion/kkDqElFP">post–World War II economic expansion</a> and the <a href="/facts/Second_Industrial_Revolution/DVjt8p4f">Second Industrial Revolution</a> in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century.

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2000s commodities boom