German Perspective—23.06.09
What happened this week: It seems the market is taking at least a temporary breather. There is only one possible exception: heavy and good quality male hides. Our concern last week that even the endless Chinese appetite could be saturated at certain price levels was possibly justified. After weeks and weeks of optimistic stories in the media about the recovery of the economy we saw a more realistic view of the situation during the last week and realities are turning back.