08.12.2011 - Should commodities investors care about the euro?
In commodities, the U.S. dollar typically commands much of the market’s attention. That makes sense since most commodities are priced in the greenback. As a result, it’s not surprising that the Federal Reserve’s decade-long effort to cheapen the dollar has coincided with rising commodity prices. But large speculators have been placing big bets on the dollar lately. “It turns out that a persistently weak currency, like the U.S. dollar, is preferred to a possibly doomed currency such as the euro,” laments John LaForge, a commodities strategist at Ned Davis Research...............................................Full Article: Source
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