Insight - More commodity inflation beckons as war boosts coal

The war-and pandemic-fuelled shortage of raw materials appears poised to fuel what’s already the biggest surge in commodity prices in decades, according to the latest MLIV Pulse survey conducted from June 6 to June 10. (File pic shows a palm oil factory in Malaysia.)

THE global commodity business can get a whole lot more expensive - and dirtier, too.

The war-and pandemic-fuelled shortage of raw materials appears poised to fuel what’s already the biggest surge in commodity prices in decades, according to the latest MLIV Pulse survey conducted from June 6 to June 10.