The crude palm oil (CPO) contract closed last week with a weekly appreciation of 2.28% to the level of Rp 14,145,- per kg. The sentiment around the CPO market, which tends to be responded negatively by the market, has in fact provided its own positive catalyst for prices. The political turmoil from the main producing country Malaysia, as well as the chaos related to COVID that hit the two main CPO producing countries, namely Indonesia and Malaysia, are the headlines that need to be underlined.

Entering July, the price of tin was observed to still move positively above $30,000 per tonne. Quoting transaction prices on ICDX, the average tin price during June was $33.825 per tonne, with the lowest price reaching $33,600 per tonne and the highest price reaching $34,050 per tonne. The re-emergence of new cases of the Covid-19 triggered by the Delta variant has the potential to threaten the demand side and disrupt the production, especially due to restrictions on activities at mining sites and tin smelters.

The COFR crude oil contract closed last week with a weekly appreciation of 2.90% to Rp 1,059,100 per barrel. The catalyst can be traced to the continued combination of expectations of a demand recovery joined by a number of sensitive geopolitical headlines in the Middle East.

The gold contract GOLDUD has closed the week with a correction, which was significantly occurred at the end of the week, to record a weekly correction of 0.80% to $1,891.30 Troy Ounce. After the market absorbed the sentiment from the 3 employment data released on the previous week, this week the market's focus seems to be on the Greenback’s performance, especially with the anticipation and back-to-back market expectations on the Fed's future stance, which is based on recent data releases - inflation figures.

Entering the beginning of June, the ICDX's tin price was observed to be staying above the level of $30,000 per ton. The recovering of the global industrial and manufacturing activity played a role in driving demand, especially for the electronic product sector, which uses a lot of tin in its applications. In addition, the resurgent Covid-19 case in Asia has limited global tin supply, due to around 70% of global tin supply comes from Asia.

The COFR crude oil contract again recorded a weekly substantial appreciation of 3.96% from the level of Rp 918,300 per barrel to the level of Rp 954,700 per barrel. Oil's slow but steady rally has taken advantage of a combination of mixed catalysts ranging from good demand expectations and a bit of news on trade politics from China – although still overshadowed by market caution ahead of next week's OPEC+ meeting and global pandemic conditions.

CPOTR crude palm oil price at ICDX has closed last week trading session with a correction of 3.40% from the level of 16,035 at previous week's close (14/05) to the level of 15,490 at last week (21/05). The main pressure can be traced from a combination of profit-taking in the market regarding peak price conditions, the concerns of Covid-19 in various Asian countries, which in parallel also triggered a collapse in global crude oil prices.

ICDX's tin price at the close of the week (7/4) was recorded at the level of $ 34,405 per ton or breaking an all-time high, where the previous highest world tin price occurred in April 2011 at the level of $ 33,255 per ton. The positive trend of tin price movements was triggered by the threat of a shortage of tin supply amid rising demand in line with the recovery in global industrial and manufacturing conditions.