
1.Commodities
2.Indices
3.Stocks
4.Currencies
DEFINITION
Commodities refer to resources & agricultural products that can be traded
with other goods. Commodities are divided into two sub - categories: soft
commodities- which indexes coffee, corn, sugar, etc. and hard commodities, those
are extracted through mining and consist of gold, silver and oil.
DRIVING FORCES
Commodities fall down under the law of supply and demand; any changes
concerning their value are a strait reflection of their quantitative state. As the
price is set according to quantity (gold per ounce, oil by barrel, etc.), the
state of the Dollar affects their value; for the every change of the Dollar assumes, it links directly to the
commodities worth.