Hedge funds returned to extending their bearish bets on agricultural commodities, led by corn, in which wet Midwest weather is supporting US yield prospects, and sugar, helping drive prices to a six-year low.
Managed money, a proxy for speculators, raised by more than 81,000 contracts its net short position in futures and options in the main 13 US-traded agricultural commodities in the week to last Tuesday, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulator...............................................Full Article: Source
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