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  • Goldman Sachs forecasts oil price to hit 130 USD in 12 months

    SINGAPORE, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Goldman Sachs analysts said on Thursday it expects the price for Brent crude to rise to 130 U.S. dollars a barrel in 12 months from now despite the uncertainties in the global economy.

    Speaking at a press briefing in Singapore, the investment bank' s senior commodities analyst Allison Nathan said the growth in the developed economies will be weak but the emerging economies are expected to make up for the weakness in demand for commodities.

    EMERGING COUNTRIES

    China is expected to grow 9.2 percent next year and the BRICS countries close to 8 percent, Nathan said, referring to the non- formal grouping of emerging countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

    "There is still quite a tool set of policies available to policymakers in the emerging markets," she said.

    Nathan said there is supply side support for oil prices, too, like the decline in the production of non-OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) countries.

    She also tipped for gold price to be at 1,860 dollars an ounce in 12 months from now, supported by low real interest rates in quite a period of time to come, though off the recent record high of 1,921.15 dollars.

    BULLISH ON COPPER

    The bank also expected fairly strong demand side support for copper, of which China accounted for 39 percent of the global consumption last year.

    Macolm Southwood, managing director and resource strategist based in Australia, said he expected constraints on the supply side for copper as a result of low prices and therefore weak incentives for the development of green field projects years earlier.

    "So we are in a situation now where the stock of green field projects available for development is very much inferior to what we might have seen 15 years ago," he said.

    The supply increase will accelerate in 2013 to result in gentle surplus, and the copper prices will probably peak next year and then moderate slightly before easing back from 2013 onwards, he said.

    CHINA FACTOR

    Julian Zhu, managing director for Asia Investment Research at the bank, said China will not be insulated from a downturn in the developed economies but there is indeed a downturn, its demand for commodities such as cement and steel will remain strong as the country is most likely ease its tightening policies.

    If there is no recession, it also bodes well for the commodities, he said.

    Southwood said emerging countries other than China are also creating strong demand as a whole.

    He also classified mineral sands, gold, copper, crude oil, platinum group metals and rare earths as the most constrained on the supply side, whereas metallurgical coal, iron ore, thermal coal and zinc in a second category of not so constrained supply.

    Nevertheless, the analysts admitted that a global downturn will have an impact on commodities, given that there could be liquidity issues in a crisis, like what has been seen in the global financial crisis in 2008.

    Editor: Yamei Wang
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