Corn ETF Surges: Behind a Blockbuster Friday

By Tom Lydon: Teucrium Trading, the manager behind the corn exchange traded fund, has launched the first ETF to track the prices of soybeans. The firm has also listed ETFs for sugar and wheat in the face of a tough market for agriculture ETFs in recent weeks. PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) is down about 4% over the past month.

By Hard Assets Investor: Issuer of CORN ETF says investors can take advantage of seasonal price declines at peak harvest time in Northern Hemisphere.

By Michael Johnston:Teucrium, the Vermont-based firm behind a growing lineup of exchange-traded commodity products, announced the launch of a new fund targeting agricultural resources.

By Ron Rowland:Teucrium, the company that brought you the Teucrium Corn Fund (CORN) last year, introduced three new single agricultural commodity exchange-traded products earlier this week.

Michael Johnston submits:In recent years, ETF assets have climbed towards $1 trillion and the number of products has surged past 1,000. Much of the growth in both products and assets has been attributable to commodity ETFs, as investors have embraced the exchange-traded structure as an efficient way to add the benefits of natural resource exposure to their portfolios.

Michael Johnston submits:The last two years have seen a tremendous surge in the number of exchange-traded products available to US investors. While there have been several “copycat” products to hit the market, the vast majority of new fund launches have focuses first-to-market ETFs unlike anything already out there. Skeptics have been saying for a while that all the good ideas are taken, but these theories have been repeatedly shot down as new ETFs have burst on to the scene and rapidly accumulated assets.

Michael Johnston submits:Last week saw another string of active sessions in commodity markets, with precious metals continuing their climb higher and agricultural ETFs soaring on supply concerns around the world. The most interesting performance of the week came on Friday, when the Teucrium Corn Fund (CORN) added more than 14% on trading volume ten times its daily average.

ETF Database submits: With equity markets surging as of late, commodities have been left on the back burner, an after-thought for most investors. However, recent events in both the sugar and wheat markets look to once again put commodity ETPs at the forefront of investors’ minds. While sugar is surging due to seasonality issues, wheat has been heavily impacted by weather issues in one of the world’s most important wheat-producing regions.