More recently, inflation has moderated as prices of energy and some commodities have declined from their earlier peaks.
And investors may perceive that QE increases the long-term risks of inflation, which also makes some commodities more attractive.
Second, make sure you have enough in international investments and perhaps some commodities to help offset these types of risks to our economy.
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Inflation picked up earlier in the year, mainly reflecting higher prices for some commodities and imported goods, as well as the supply chain disruptions.
Some commodities analysts say speculators have been driving wheat prices artificially high because they are hoping to make a profit from the worries over Russian exports.
The more investors decide that they need some commodities exposure (as a portfolio diversifying tactic), the higher the number of futures contracts that must be purchased.
The use of a sufficiently robust basket would result in a balance of errors as variations in one direction in some commodities cancel out variations in the opposite direction in others.
Market watchers said that seems to be the case in other markets besides precious metals, too, as prices for some commodities seem to be lower than fundamentally justified in the short-term.
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Many economists and anti-dollar investors have been bearish on the dollar over the last five years, at least, with some commodities bulls being dollar bears as far back as the early 2000s.
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Venezuelan government hikes regulated prices on some commodities.
In particular, for some commodities (including coffee) certification is available only to co-operatives of small producers, who are deemed to be most likely to give workers a fair deal when deciding how to spend the Fairtrade premium.
Inflation has been subdued, although the prices of some key commodities have increased recently.
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Johnson suggests the CFTC flex its muscle and veto some more commodities.
Traditionally, some farm commodities are up in price and others are down.
Some see commodities in general, and gold in particular, as a hedge against inflation, and so may sell if their fears about rising prices abate.
Metals markets are particularly attractive for sharp operators because, unlike some other commodities, or equities, the underlying asset can be stored indefinitely without spoilage or change.
They include the privatisation of several state-owned companies, an end to restrictions on the stocking of some agricultural commodities and a plan to shed excess government manpower.
EU, put some of these commodities on the world market at half their production cost.
As it happens, the residential property bubble in America has begun to lose air and the overall economy has eased some, but commodities have risen.
All those containers that are coming in, they have, in some cases, commodities coming from Latin America, but they also have finished products that are coming in from Latin America.
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To some analysts, the commodities downturn is proof of how important Asian demand has become.
Some investors are using commodities as a hedge, to guard against a broad drop in the stock market.
The most recent circumstantial evidence also suggests that the Fed may bear some responsibility for the commodities boom.
The biggest equity markets dropped 5%, and the more speculative plays, including some Asian indexes and commodities, were down 10% or more--after heady run-ups.
Perhaps Goldman is up to some dirty dealings with commodities too.
Some professional money managers are starting to treat commodities as a tradable asset class, which bothers some traditional investors as each commodity has different supply and demand fundamentals.
Thanks to abundant natural resources the economy has grown at an average of 7% a year for the past decade and only now shows some signs of flagging as commodities prices drop.
Just as investors in most mutual funds and ETFs don't realize they are technically buying shares in an "investment company, " investors in commodities ETFs and some other ETFs may not realize they are investing in portfolios that are set up as trusts or limited partnerships.
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