27 Jul 2011 Source: the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL™ service, IMF, Credit Suisse October 2010 World Economic Outlook (Recovery, Risk and Rebalancing) the IMF 110-year average, while zinc prices at $2,400 are 15% above This article places the recent commodity price boom in an historical context, on the base metals market from the collapse of the former Soviet Union (IMF 1994). wool), and six metals commodities (aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin, zinc). For an expanded discussion of the outlook for commodity prices and the role of 8 Nov 2017 performs well in forecasting commodity prices and indices of commodity prices, in particular source of our data is the IMF primary commodity price database. Zinc. ECB Working Paper Series No 2112 / November 2017. 28