2025 commodity market outlooks

Explore 2025's market trends and insights with Fastmarkets' intelligence to shape your strategic decisions

As you kick off 2025, you’re likely ready to position your business for success in an evolving global landscape. Whether you’re in procurement, a trader or leading a business as a CEO, having a forward-looking perspective on commodity markets is essential for staying competitive and making informed decisions. 

To help you plan strategically, we’ve pulled together an in-depth collection of 2025 market outlooks across metals and mining and battery raw materials, agriculture and forest products in one place. We explore key trends including shifts in global demand, advancements in low-carbon technologies as well as the impact of trade tariffs. With these 2025 outlooks across key commodity markets, you’ll gain actionable insights to guide your business forward. Read on to discover what 2025 holds and how to prepare for what’s next. 

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Browse market insights and analysis from our expert editorial team and price reporters working across the metals and mining, battery raw materials, forest products and agriculture markets.

The growth is largely expected to be driven by stricter environmental regulations, increasing pressure from consumers and investors for sustainable products, and the region’s commitment to achieving carbon neutrality, according to sources.

After years of insufficient domestic supply that brought prices to record highs, China’s fluorspar supply tightness will ease in 2025 due to several newly developed mining sites as well as rising imports from Africa, sources told Fastmarkets, adding that demand from batteries, especially the energy storage sector (ESS), will continue to rise.

Participants in the market for copper scrap and blister in China, the world’s largest importer of copper raw materials, expect there to be fiercer competition for material in 2025, industry sources told Fastmarkets in the week to Thursday January 9.

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