Money Flows Into Commodities as Growth Fears Start to Ease

  • Traders jump into exchange-traded funds over past three weeks
  • Open interest in raw-material markets at $1.31 trillion: JPM

Traders have piled into exchange-traded funds covering oil to metals and grains as investors wager that the global economy is set to avoid a painful recession, despite the prospect of higher interest rates.

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Traders have piled into exchange-traded funds covering oil to metals and grains as investors wager that the global economy is set to avoid a painful recession, despite the prospect of higher interest rates.

More than $350 million was put into 20 ETFs that track broad-based commodity indexes in July, only the second month of inflows this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That follows four months of withdrawals.