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Bullish headlines conceal underlying weaknesses

The performances of many commodity prices have been more nuanced than the headlines might suggest. This is clearest in the case of agriculturals, where far more attention is still being paid to the mid-2012 surges in the prices of US grains than to the subsequent falls, or to the relative weakness of other key agricultural commodities, from rice and sugar to cotton and coffee.

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