{"id":7179,"date":"2008-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"soft-commodities-seen-outperforming-other-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/soft-commodities-seen-outperforming-other-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"Soft commodities seen outperforming other assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Soft commodities will likely outperform other commodity asset classes over the next five years, in large part due to their ties to energy, a senior sugar trader said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Boyden, head of sugar trading at Ambrian Capital, said soft commodity prices had risen by 29 percent in the past five years &#8212; less impressive than base metals (up 454 percent), precious metals (up 168 percent), and grains (up 116 percent).<\/p>\n<p>But softs futures &#8212; sugar, coffee and cocoa &#8212; have soared by more than 20 percent since the start of 2008, powered by investment funds and speculators which are seeking big returns in agricultural commodities.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A lot of the driving force in softs is a pick-up of what has happened in energy,&quot; Boyden said. &quot;It&#8217;s not just about food any more.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/238078558\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/238078558\/idUKNOA03428220080220\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Soft commodities will likely outperform other commodity asset classes over the next five years, in large part due to their ties to energy, a senior sugar trader said on Tuesday. Jonathan Boyden, head of sugar trading at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}