These six charts show the dislocations since the outbreak of war

Dusseldorf A good two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one thing is clear: the large-scale military attack on the former Soviet republic has long since turned into a global economic war.

The West is imposing increasingly severe sanctions, and more and more companies are withdrawing from Russia. For its part, Moscow is threatening expropriation and a gas boycott.

The fear of delivery failures and supply gaps is great and is causing turmoil on the commodity markets worldwide. The prices for oil and gas, industrial metals such as aluminum, nickel and palladium, and agricultural commodities such as wheat are skyrocketing, sometimes to record levels.

In six charts, the Handelsblatt shows the extent of the upheavals on important commodity markets and their consequences.

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