Most major commodity groups rallied in 2009, completing a decade in which both commodities and bonds outperformed stocks. Economists see further gains in 2010 for natural gas, but not for oil.
To all the fresh-faced dollar bulls out there, following your favorite doomsaying long-dollar gurus, watch out for this.
China is set, yet again, to start trading dollars for hard assets en masse. This is despite claims that the country already has too much in the way of hard assets. That's how commited they are to this diversification (after all, it's not like there are any other paper currencies to move into
