Commodities entered a bull market, gaining 21 percent from a
June low, as grain prices surged after the most severe U.S. drought in half a
century and as crude oil rallied amid increased tension in the Middle East, Bloomberg’s
Finest report.
The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw
materials rose 0.9 percent to end at 675.55 yesterday in New York. The gauge
has jumped from this year’s lowest close of 559 on June 21. A gain of more than
20 percent is the common definition of a bull market. Crude accounts for more
than 50 percent of index.
Soybeans rose to a record yesterday, and corn soared 66
percent since mid-June. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared almost
1,600 counties in 32 states as natural-disaster areas after the drought seared
millions of acres of cropland….
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