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• Fund shareholders who were relatively new to commodity investing have learned at first hand how wildly prices can gyrate.
• Changes planned by the chief regulator of the nations commodity markets are meant to address concerns that market malfunctions may be contributing to rising food and energy .
• Jeff Frankel has been arguing for some time, most recently in a new blog post, that low real interest rates are driving up commodity prices.

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News & Articles

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• How Commodity Demand Evolves When Emerging Markets Mature
  Emerging markets build more and developed markets eat more. That seems to be a universal truth in this world. ...Urbanization usually comes with economic development and commodity intensity evolves with economic development.
  June 15, 2013 - Business Insider
• Commodity Hedge Funds Said by FAO Finding Profits Harder to Make
  Commodity hedge funds are finding it harder to make a profit partly because fees and other charges “soured customers,” the Food & Agriculture Organization said.
  June 13, 2013 - Bloomberg
• More Commodity ETFs: Credit Suisse Releases New ETNs
  Investors now have new commodity ETNs from Credit Suisse, giving broad exposure to the space.
  June 12, 2013 - Zacks via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• President Bush in MarketWatch
  At a time of high food prices and record farm income, this bill lacks program reform and fiscal discipline,Bush said. "When commodity prices are at record highs, it is irresponsible to increase government subsidy rates."
• Richard Galanti in Seattle Times
  I think the consumer is just starting to see, not only with us, rising commodity costs and rising general merchandise costs in a much bigger way then they've seen other than with gasoline itself,said Richard Galanti, Costco's chief financial...
• Glenn Stevens in AFP
  Growth in China has been very strong, which is having a significant impact on other economies in the region and on commodity markets,Stevens said.