18.07.2014 - Grains lead the way as global commodity prices decline
The prospect of a huge U.S. crop harvest has hammered crop prices down to multi-year lows. Rising supply is the main factor in grain price weakness, but commodities in general are also declining in value. After rising to a two-year high in June and out performing the S&P 500 stock index in the first six months of the year, the Thomson Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index, a measure of prices for 19 commodities, had declined for 11 straight trading sessions as of July 11, the longest decline in records going back to 1994...............................................Full Article: Source
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