It is worthwhile to note that other energy and agriculture commodities are also down for the day.
Commodities prices have surged in 2010 and that includes agriculture commodities.
Most of them still depend hugely on rain-fed agriculture and on commodities.
The food aid plan also may be expanded to other surplus commodities, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said.
As a result, we are continuing to invest in commodities, agriculture, precious metals, base metals, oil and gas exploration, oil and gas equipment and services as well as natural gas.
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Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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The boom in commodities of all kinds, agriculture, metals, energy is like a global freight train hurtling in see-saw motions across our consciousness.
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The report encompasses all commodities, including the metals and agriculture.
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The Brazilian real and Colombian and Chilean pesos should remain stable providing the sell-off of riskier assets does also not hurt commodities too much, especially metals and agriculture.
Another such ETF with low correlation to the market is the PowerShares Agriculture Fund ( DBA), which is an ETF comprised of agricultural commodities.
Without flocks of resort-goers, nations in this part of the world would have to rely more heavily on agriculture, leaving their economies at the mercy of the fluctuating prices of commodities like coffee, sugar and bananas.
Indeed, my agency Elasticity works with a number of agriculture-based clients such as seed-maker Monsanto, crop-and-commodities predictor Lanworth, Intervet Schering-Plough and SFP, to name a few.
But some of the forces lifting the agriculture economy today are powerful, such as the strength of Asia's appetite for commodities.
He recommends that long-term investors who want to own commodities buy an index like the iShare GSG Commodity Index , which includes holdings in metals, agriculture and energy.
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