| Strong gains in commodity prices since the early 2000s created a growing interest in the asset class. The financial industry responded with many products, including new hedge funds, index funds, commodity-linked fixed income products and exchange-traded funds.
With oil and natural gas making a prominent peak in 2008 and gold hitting a peak in 2011, many took this as a sign that the commodity bull had run its course and expected that we would return to the normal, long-standing trend of commodity price deflation...............................................Full Article: Source
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