Mr. Koutoulas is the CEO of Typhon Capital Management and recently founded the Commodity Customer Coalition (CCC), which is comprised of over 7, 000 customers of MF Global.

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While such a portfolio would have required a much higher outlay of capital in the past (especially before the advent of commodity and currency ETFs), she can now build a portfolio incorporating all of her views through the use of ETFs.

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Its purchases of foreign assets keep the cost of capital down and its appetite for raw materials keeps their price up, to the benefit of commodity producers wherever they sell their wares.

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Economic policy in these nations has evolved, to the point where they have managed to efficiently navigate a global environment of high commodity prices, low interest rates, and large capital flows.

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Jon Huntsman had purchased 34 mainly commodity chemical businesses over the years, with almost none of his own capital.

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The combination of a massive commodity windfall and extremely loose monetary policy in advanced economies have channeled huge capital flows to these economies.

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Before the smaller players drill, they must factor in such issues as their capital and lease costs, as well as the price of the underlying commodity.

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"The accuracy of tweets is a major concern, " said Zeid Barakat, co-founder of Flyberry Capital, a startup that uses high-speed strategies to trade commodity futures around news events.

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"When you talk about the sectors that are leading on the way down, they're all commodity-backed in some fashion, " said Will Bertsch, a head of trading for BMO Capital Markets.

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