| From FT: Commodities prices were on Monday heading for their biggest quarterly drop in more than 50 years on concerns that the US economic slowdown is hitting China, the world’s engine of raw materials demand.
Bankers fear that the drop in commodities prices will trigger a wave of liquidation among speculative investors, further depressing prices in the short term. Kamal Naqvi, head of commodity hedge fund sales at Credit Suisse, told a gold conference in Kyoto that commodity hedge funds could lose up to 25 per cent of their assets by the end of September because of investor redemptions..... Full Article: Source
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