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Picture du Jour: Commodities – Too Much Too Quickly?

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 19th, 2008 posted in: Commodities, Investment, Markets, Money

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Can money trees in fact grow to heaven? It was certainly beginning to look that way when considering the frenzied surge of many commodities to new highs week after week. But the past few days have seen commodity prices pulling back from their lofty levels. What should one read in this? [...]

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