Although buying stocks of commodity related companies can provide additional risk over direct commodity investment, there is some evidence that investors are being compensated for those risks.

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The dollar is also trying to turn higher, and a further rally will add additional downward pressure on commodity prices.

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Unfortunately, as the commodity markets are screaming, additional QE will do little other than to further depress the value of the dollar.

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Companies that are sensitive to commodity prices will either have to absorb the additional costs or attempt to pass them along to consumers.

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However, the market place took the FOMC statement as taking one more step back from any additional quantitative easing, which had been so bullish for raw commodity markets and so bearish for the U.S. dollar index.

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The flood of additional dollars into the financial system pumped up the stock market and commodity prices, creating inflation, but its effect on the economy was apparently only temporary.

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Q4 results were padded by an additional week compared to the prior year, as well as a benefit from hedged commodity costs.

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