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Commodities ease as China de-risking builds

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Welcome to Wednesday’s Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand.

I'm David Chaston and this is the international edition from Interest.co.nz.

And today we lead with news commodity prices are facing some headwinds, and that may get worse as trade prospects dim and the de-risking from China builds.

Today's full dairy auction brought lower prices from both last week's Pulse event, and the prior week's full event. But the dips were largely as expected and foreshadowed in the derivatives market. In the event, overall prices were -2.8%…

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