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Short View: Commodity trading

By John Authers, Investment Editor

Published: July 7 2009 18:31 | Last updated: July 7 2009 18:31

Regulators are grasping the nettle of regulating commodity trading. This should allow an overdue debate on the impact of institutional investment in commodity futures.

The story so far: academics showed that commodities were not strongly correlated with stocks and bonds. Investing in them could thus reduce risk without reducing returns.

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