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Cotton gives stellar performance in 2017

Tue, Jan 02, 2018 - 5:50 AM

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A farmer working in a cotton field in Burkina Faso. Cotton was one of the few crops that hedge funds got more positive on during the course of the year.
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THE longest winning streak in two decades propelled cotton to 2017's biggest increase among crop commodities, and hedge funds are ready for more gains in 2018.

Of the nine components tracked by the Bloomberg Agriculture Subindex, only cotton...

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