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10/10/2008 4:16 PM

POWERSHARES DB CMDTY IDX TRA (DBC)

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POWERSHARES DB CMDTY IDX TRA At A Glance

Current Price: $27.36
Last Trade Time: 10/10/2008 4:16 PM
Open: $27.34
Previous Close: $28.63
Daily Range: $27.27 - $28.94
52-Week Range: $27.89 - $46.63
Volume: 1,859,219
Market Cap: $1.83B
P/E Ratio: 0.00
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Avatar Xyrus2 (< 20) Submitted: 3/16/08 3:55 PM

Commodities will continue to outperform until the FED stops turning the dollar into worthless paper. Also, as other economies have expanded, more demand has been placed on the basic necessities. These two factors have been driving up commodities at a good clip.

Precious metals and commodi...More

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Avatar wcwhiner (99.96) Submitted: 1/25/07 4:05 PM

Short commodities on soft landing. The 75 bps in fees are icing on the cake.

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Avatar ResearchLover (< 20) Submitted: 8/21/08 12:08 PM : Outperform Start Price: $39.85 DBC Score: -0.74

A little blog on my perspective of the future of commodity prices through 2009:





I hate to root for the root cause of inflation, but heres two big thumbs up for a realistic expectation that raw materials for all kinds of products will continue to increase in price until Ben raises rates. How will that change anything?? Good question. Come December at the earliest, after housing has stabilized for 2 consecutive months, he raises rates to fight inflation here in the US. He'll keep doing that for a while. Bonds issued by riskier emerging market countries start to look more expensive from a risk/reward perspective. Emerging markets subsidize their growth in part by borrowing money, issuing bonds. They then will have to pay more to maintain their subsidies, and that leads to loosening of price controls, and a decrease in demand.





All of this assumes that commodities are effectively one big basket (where large in and outflows of investment across the sector have apparently caused various fundamentally different commodities to behave the same in terms of their price movements--PRICE COUPLING). This is a powerful force, which on the occassions where it reverses to reflect specific market forces affecting a single commodity--e.g. GOLD earlier this spring--leads to DECOUPLING of prices and volatility.





I think the first assumption also justifies this second one, that commodities prices have been fundamentally altered by speculative investment, and will continue to be for the forseeable future. Therefore, it is only the EXPECTATION that emerging markets are driving these price swings, and the above logic, that need apply in order for Ben and the housing market, and financial sector weakness to have the big role it has in this new bubble. And if it bothers you calling the drive up in commodities prices a bubble, then, think of it as the next way that big investors are able to 'magically' take money from..virtually everybody, and devalue it relative to their invested currency.





So, a final point which rests on the above assumptions, but which I also offer as proof prima facie, is that the invested currency of choice (dollars) should see a substantial decrease in its value as it is converted back from investment gains into currency. But wait, that means that commodities prices falling and the dollar rising are causally linked in BOTH directions. The other direction is that dollar denominated commodities decrease in price as the dollar strengthens.





(More on my blog)

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Avatar graybell (60.39) Submitted: 8/18/08 9:51 PM : Outperform Start Price: $37.20 DBC Score: 4.09

Could be close to a low here.

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Avatar Marcus87 (87.88) Submitted: 8/13/08 2:59 AM : Outperform Start Price: $36.91 DBC Score: 5.31

As the human population exceeds its carrying capacity, commodity prices will sky rocket. So long as there are 6 billion + people on this earth, commodity prices will rise

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Avatar gea1968 (36.19) Submitted: 7/14/08 10:29 PM : Outperform Start Price: $45.68 DBC Score: -12.77

The fundamentals of rising population and rising prosperity in BRIC and elsewhere will drive inflation of many commodities worldwide; The dollar is also falling, which raises the value of hard assets. This ETF offers exposure to a basket of commodities that should keep rising.

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Avatar caterpillar10 (79.10) Submitted: 7/01/08 10:38 PM : Outperform Start Price: $44.63 DBC Score: -4.68

....7/1/08....good time to stay in managed, broad based cmdtyidx.....stable upside accum, long hold, review quarterly

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