| Year-to-date gains in core commodity indexes are two to three times the gains in broad U.S. bond and stock indexes. For the first time in years, commodities are doing something they haven’t done in a while: They’re outperforming major asset classes like stocks, bonds and real estate.
After several years of consecutive annual losses for major commodity benchmarks, a turnaround in the beleaguered group appears to be in the works. Since the start of the year, the Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRY) has climbed 9.5% in value compared to a gain of just 3.6% for the total U.S. stock market (VTI), 4.4% for the total U.S. bond market (BND) and 7% for global real estate equities (REET)...............................................Full Article: Source
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