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Corn leads commodities lower as demand disappoints

The collapse in the prices of US grains has received the most attention recently, but commodity prices in general continued to fall in March. The main drivers of this weakness were worries about the prospects for global growth, renewed tensions in the euro-zone and in many cases, rising production.

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