Commodities split cleanly into metals and everything else. Over five years the split inverts.
Over three years every metal we track rose and every other commodity fell, with no exceptions. Extend the window to five and the pattern inverts at both ends. The split is real, and it is not structural.
Every metal rose. Every other commodity fell.
Over the past three years the ten commodities we track split cleanly in two, and the line falls exactly between metals and everything else.1
SILVER returned +178.8%, GOLD +125.6%, PLATINUM +94.9%, COPPER +75.3% and PALLADIUM +13.8%. Every one positive.
WHEAT returned -2.5%, BRENT CRUDE -3.0%, NATURAL GAS -4.1%, WTI CRUDE -5.7% and CORN -9.6%. Every one negative.
No exceptions in either direction. The worst metal beat the best non-metal by more than sixteen points. Every figure here is a front-month futures contract rather than a spot price, and each series is stitched across contracts as they expire. That is the same construction for all ten, so the ranking between them holds even though no single number is a holding-period return.
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