| The rise of exchange-traded funds and notes makes it easy for everyone to own commodities, and many financial advisers recommend small stakes as permanent elements of a diversified portfolio. But the average broad-basket commodities ETF has lost an average of 7.9% a year in the past five years through July, according to Morningstar Inc. MORN 0.21 %.
And the bloodletting has only intensified this year. The S&P GSCI, a benchmark for commodity-markets investments, for example, has plummeted 43.1% in the 12 months through Thursday...............................................Full Article: Source
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