Investor positioning in the futures markets for both metals and agriculturals has taken a downward turn recently. While the picture is not uniform across commodities, we think that investor selling will further weigh on the futures prices of these commodities in the second half of 2019. What’s more, as today’s plunge in oil prices shows, we suspect that positive investor sentiment towards oil is on borrowed time.
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