14.02.2013 - Is there a safety net in commodities?
Commodities can have a great role in your portfolio, however, they don’t seem to be providing a lot of downside protection for the stock component of your portfolio. As I show you in the chart in the video of the movement of the S&P 500 versus the Deutsche Bank Commodity Tracking Index, you can see that when stocks have been moving lower, commodities have also been moving lower. When stocks have been moving higher, commodities have also been moving higher. This is a positive correlation between these two asset groups...............................................Full Article: Source
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