| What is falling harder than commodity prices? Some exchange-traded funds that seek to track the companies that dig and drill for raw materials and fuel. It is no small feat to overshadow recent declines in industrial materials such as oil and metals. The Bloomberg Commodity Index, which tracks the prices of 22 raw materials, this week hit a 13-year low and is down 13% this year.
For 2015, copper prices have slumped 17%, oil prices have dropped 16% and gold prices have fallen 8%. Exchange-traded funds that track these commodities are down by a similar percentage. But some exchange-traded funds that invest in and aim to track the share prices of commodity-producing companies are doing much worse...............................................Full Article: Source
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