Biggest Commodity Price Shock in Fifty Years
Commodity prices stabilized in April. However, the previous commodity price shock, intensifying trends that have been present since mid-2020, have already led to significantly higher price levels in 2022. The new jumps made the increase in energy prices in the last two years the biggest in the last fifty years, since the oil shock in 1973. The war in Ukraine and the shock of energy commodity prices have not been favorable to the energy transition, as seen in the race for coal.