| A recent article in the Financial Times highlights why, in part, the steam has gone out of the commodity markets. Judging the super cycle to be at and end investors have exited the market en mass in the belief no money is to be made from a falling market. After making 7% returns in the first half of the year from simply tracking the Bloomberg (formerly Dow Jones) Commodity Index, the third quarter has seen prices fall across the board.
According to the FT, figures compiled by Citigroup show net withdrawals from exchange-traded and commodity-linked funds totaled $8.2 billion in the 3 months to the end of September, canceling out inflows of $7.5 billion in the first half of the year...............................................Full Article: Source
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