The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given graph illustrates the percentage of average monthly rises or falls in how much copper,

nickel

and

zinc

cost throughout 2014. The initial impression is that

while

the

change

in the

price

of

nickel

and copper experienced a decreasing trend, there was an increasing trend in the

change

of

price

of

zinc

in the given period of time. In terms of

nickel

and

zinc

,as can be seen,

while

nickel

change

in

price

was 6%, which was the highest figure in the whole period, at the beginning of 2014, the

change

in the

price

of

zinc

was 1%, which was the lowest. From January to

March

, the percentage of

change

in the

price

of

nickel

fell sharply by 5%.

In contrast

,

zinc

experienced a significant increase until February and a small fall to

March

. Between

March

to November,

nickel

and

zinc

witnessed a similar pattern and there was a dip of - 3% and -1% in

nickel

and

zinc

respectively, which was followed by a growth in the

price

of both metals.From July to September,

nickel

and

zinc

remained at the same level of 3% and 1% respectively.

At the end

of the year,

although

zinc

was responsible for the highest percentage of

change

, which was 2%, the

change

in the

price

of

nickel

was the lowest, which was 1%. Turning next to copper,

it is clear that

it dropped considerably from January to

March

when it reached a dip of about -0.5% of

change

.

Although

it plateaued at 1% from July to September, it grew to approximately 1.5% in December.