30.10.2012 - Protect against a commodities meltdown
Booming growth in developing markets, coupled with inflationary money-printing in the U.S. and Europe, helped fuel a bull market in commodities for a dozen years. Today, though, Wall Street is flashing a yellow light: Commodity bugs had better scoot to avoid being squashed by the global slowdown. "The secular bull market in commodities is done," says Jeff Weniger, senior investment analyst at Harris Private Bank. "Finished. Kaput." Don't let the recent rise in prices for oil (partly caused by unrest in the Middle East) and corn (the drought in the Midwest) fool you...............................................Full Article: Source
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