| Investors can utilize exchange traded funds to target specific commodity opportunities as the commodities market begins to show greater divergence among its various components. Over the past three months, the broader commodities market has been turning around. For instance, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund rose 2.3% and iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust increased 4.2%.
Nevertheless, investors can also target specific commodities to capture changes in fundamentals of the underlying market. For example, the United States Oil Fund, which tracks West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures, gained 8.7% over the past three months and the iPath Dow Jones UBS Agriculture Sub-Index ETN rose 5.8%...............................................Full Article: Source
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