Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit:
Commodity investors were probably just as happy to see July end as equity investors were to see the end of June. During the month, the CRB Commodities Index recorded a decline of 10.0% which is the worst monthly decline since March 1980 (10.5%) and the second worst decline ever!
Below we highlight a long term chart of the CRB commodity index since 1960 with each of the red dots indicating the only two monthly declines of 10% or more.
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