Brazil has sucked in record amounts of capital in part because it is a big beneficiary of booming commodity prices and the global mania for commodity-related investments.

巴西吸收了创纪录的资本，部分原因是受益于大宗商品价格的持续上涨和与大宗商品相关的全球性投资热。

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Revenues from tourism and Cuba's main commodity exports have fallen dramatically, and residents report shortages of fruit and vegetables at markets across the capital.

古巴旅游业收入和主要商品出口额已明显下降，居民反映首都市场上果蔬供应不足。

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"Things are going to be a lot better this year than a lot of people think," Lars Steffensen, founder and managing director of commodity hedge fund Ebullio Capital Management told Bloomberg.

“今年的形势要比许多人所认为的更好一些”，期货对冲基金e bullio资本管理公司创始人及总裁Lars Steffensen对彭搏社表示。

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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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