12.05.2014 - Investing in commodity ETPs
Who remembers the commodity ‘super-cycle’? Just a few years ago, the term was on the tip of every investment commentator’s tongue. Many believed that prices of the major commodities would rise and rise in response to demand from the fast-growing emerging world, hungry for more food and more materials. Like many other certainties, the commodity boom has not been quite as expected. For the last two years or so, the prices of most commodities have drifted lower. Recently, the price of copper, one of the bellwether commodities, fell to multi-year lows but there are now signs that industrial metals and other commodities may be starting to pick up. Agricultural commodity prices have bounced recently and inflows into commodity trackers are at the highest level for a couple of years...............................................Full Article: Source
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