Agribusiness ETFs: Comparing All The Options

Stock markets have broadly come back so far in 2011, as optimism over growth in emerging nations and some portions of the developed world has outweighed geopolitical concerns in the Middle East and a nuclear disaster in Japan. While a number of sectors have led this charge higher, undoubtedly one of the most important is the business of agriculture. Companies engaged in this critical business have been surging higher as demand and prices for a number of key soft commodities have skyrocketed in the past few months. In fact, since the end of 2010, corn prices have risen close to 16% while cotton and coffee have seen their values surge by more than 35%, suggesting that the commodity boom is impacting not only staple crops like corn, but even textile-focused products and more ‘discretionary’ goods such as coffee; no single sector has been immune from these price increases. Due to [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: Global X Joins Auto ETF Race IndexIQ Launches Global Agribusiness Small Cap ETF (CROP) Creative ETF Ideas To Hedge Against Global Unrest Three ETFs George Soros Might Like Agribusiness ETF Soars On BHP’s Potash Play