The pattern for trade in primary commodities is much the same, with about 90% of them priced in dollars.

FORBES: Euroflop

Many of these companies are linked to agribusiness or other primary commodities.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

But Saudi investors may be resented for buying up primary commodities from poor countries, while monopolising and limiting the output of their own special one: oil.

ECONOMIST: Feeding its own people more cheaply

The primary indicators of excess dollar liquidity gold, commodities and the dollar itself are signaling doubts about the Fed.

FORBES: Malpass to Bernanke: Hike! Hike! Hike!