date:Apr 01, 2014
Speculators who took a chance betting on higher agricultural prices this year are being rewarded with the best quarterly rally since 2010.
Money managers are now holding the biggest bullish wager in three years on farm goods from cotton to soybeans. They got bullish in January, defying forecasts for abundant supplies of everything from grains to coffee to sugar. As more bets were added over the quarter, the Standard Poors Agricultural Spot Index jumped 15%, five times the gain across commodit