| Commodity investors stung by the four-year bear market made one simple mistake: investing in an asset class not backed by a central bank. Whereas equities and bonds have benefited from very meaningful support, direct and indirect, from central bank asset-purchase programmes, commodities have not.
That may or may not be good policy; certainly you can argue that the current downdraft in commodities prices reflects a singular lack of inflation risk in the global economy. That might argue for more quantitative easing, but given that what we’ve had so far has neither generated much inflation or kindled demand for raw materials, it would be hard to be too sure that more central bank buying of financial assets would help commodities prices...............................................Full Article: Source
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