| From Commodityonline.com: Global commodity prices are rising, fueled in part by speculative trading that could mark commodities as the latest asset class bubble and spur a regulatory backlash from governments keen to control the price of basic foodstuffs.
The prices of many commodities undoubtedly would have risen anyway in response to recent supply disruptions and rising demand; but it's the outsized impact of investors leveraging on low interest rates to speculate on commodities which could prompt un-sustainable bubbles in some markets, anger consumers, and draw yet more fire from politicians on the dangers of derivatives trading..............................................Full Article: Source
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