05.08.2013 - Is it time to buy commodities?
Commodities investors are missing out on the party. Since its recent peak in September 2012, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index, which includes 20 products such as natural gas, gold and copper, has fallen about 14%. During the same period, the S&P 500 stock index has taken off, returning close to 20% including dividends. And even amid all the talk of a bond-market crash, a broad-based bond-market exchange-traded fund such as iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market has lost only a few percent, while exchange-traded funds that own riskier bonds, like high-yield ones, have in some cases made money...............................................Full Article: Source
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