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最近一段时间,受次级债危机的影响,大宗商品的价格开始大幅下跌。石油价格同今年7月份最高价147美元相比,四个月之内已经下跌了52%。伦敦期货市场铜价同今年年初相比下降46%、铝下降33%、锌、镍、锡均下降达60%,橡胶更是在最近两个月内下跌达50%。相对于工业品,农产品的下跌幅度还相对缓和。同年初相比,大豆的价格下跌30%、玉米价格下跌25%、小麦下跌38%。
Recently, due to the subprime crisis, the price of commodities started to plummet. Oil prices have fallen 52% in four months compared with the highest price of 147 U.S. dollars in July of this year. Copper futures in the London futures market dropped 46% from the beginning of the year, aluminum dropped 33%, zinc, nickel and tin dropped by 60% and rubber even dropped by 50% in the last two months. Relative to industrial products, the decline in agricultural products is still relatively modest. Compared with the beginning of the same year, soybean prices fell 30%, corn prices fell 25%, wheat fell 38%.