The Commodities Investor: A Beginner's Guide to Diversifying Your Portfolio with Commodities

Commodities make the world go around. They feed, drive and help manufacture a plethora of everyday items. In 2007/08 the world's population witnessed the commodity story reaching epic proportions. Rising demand, coupled with limited supply as well as volatile stock markets, all merged into a perfect storm to push up the cost of resources and agricultural commodities across the globe. This soaring want and need for everything from oil to gold, from corn to natural gas sent markets, investors and the media into a frenzied state. But many believe this occurrence was not just random hyperbole - demand for energy, metals, both precious and industrial, alongside agricultural commodities, especially from the vast populations of world's emerging economies, such as China and India, was insatiable. The aim of this book is to help private investors understand the story and themes driving the major commodities in the primary resource sectors energy, base metals, precious metals and agriculture