| Commodities are on the mend. That much is confirmed by the year-to-date performance of the PowerShares DB Com Indx Trckng Fund(ETF) and other diversified exchange-traded products. DBC is up 15.3 percent this year.
Mending Commodities: Some individual commodities, namely energy and precious metals fare, have easily surpassed broader commodities benchmarks this year. For example, the United States Brent Oil Fund, LP, which tracks Brent crude futures, is up 24.7 percent this year. Gold is another commodities leader as highlighted by the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF), which is higher by 21.4 percent...............................................Full Article: Source
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