Commodity benchmarks are on course in Q3, 2013 to the biggest quarterly gains in a year however, Barclays cautions that it is not due to any real recovery in the global economy. Commodity returns were boosted with the easing of a number of potentially negative factors and the emergence of the some idiosyncratic risks in specific markets such as oil, rather than any convincing evidence of a sustained improvement in the demand environment.
"With the list of issues and events that could potentially wrong-foot investors now a little shorter and positioning much cleaner, we see outcomes for commodity markets in Q4 tied to three key themes," Barclays said:..............................................Full Article: Source |