| From Bloomberg: Commodity prices beat gains in stocks, bonds and the dollar this year as China, the biggest user of everything from cotton to copper to soybeans, led the recovery from the first global recession since World War II.
The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB index, a gauge of 19 raw materials, jumped 15 percent since the end of 2009 through yesterday. The MSCI All Country World Index of stocks rose 13 percent after accounting for reinvested dividends. Global bonds returned 4.7 percent as measured by Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Broad Market Index..............................................Full Article: Source
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