G. L. Turner

Is the Commodities Bull Market Over?

The prices in commodoties began to retreat significantly in early June - this was a result of the spotlight beginning to be focused on several key price provokers - namely 4 notable WS Frims, who had, over the last 4 years engineered the CIFs and had talked a lot of Pension Money,etc. into moving into the area. When Congress started pushing the CFTC to take a look, the heat was getting too close...and the Managers of the Pension Funds, etc. who had been enticed into playing the 'passive long commodity investor' game suddenly began to realize the damage their 'asset allocations' were causing to the global economy and the other 98% of their portfolios. So yes,"Investor Sentiment" did change as these fund managers begin to wise up and start to exit theri long positions....add to this the laying off of radical "ginned up" 'analysts reports' and saber-rattling by Bush/Iran/Putin, and things 'shifted' by mid-June. The outflow on monies begin to move back into the stock portfolios and the dollar finally had a chance...so the 'perfect storm' of factors that were driving high prices was reversed and they are working in favor of the other direction...yes, the 'manipulated bubble' was burst.
However, get ready, the bad boyes of WS jsut bought inot the new Dubai Oil Futres Exchange - now they can begin to 'manipulate' beyond the reach of the CFTC shortly....
Round II begins early next year.
G