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raw materials · sector mood
2016
year mood
-0.09
· -0.55 to +0.25 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1
+1 bullish
month values ▾
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.55 | -0.55 | -0.30 | -0.20 | -0.15 | -0.05 | +0.05 | +0.05 | +0.05 | +0.10 | +0.20 | +0.25 |
Commodities bottomed early with oil at $26 and metals at lows, then rallied powerfully off the Q1 trough on China stimulus and the post-election reflation trade, with gold rallying on Brexit, a dramatic turnaround.
How this mood is scored · reconstructed read ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or
makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why?
The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown
above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is
quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through
the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked.
This year predates live news collection, so it is a reconstructed read of the historical record. The mood and the events behind it are real.
· last computed Jul 06, 2026
Top raw materials stories of 2016
No source-linked stories on record for this sector-year. The mood read above still stands; stories appear here as the pipeline processes coverage for this period.