Weekly Commodity ETF Flows: Investors Dump XLE, Take Profits on GLD and SLV

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Sumit Roy Despite more macroeconomic worries and volatility in financial markets, commodity-related exchange-traded products managed to see a solid net inflow in aggregate last week. Investors added $863 million to the space, only the second inflow in eight weeks.

Hard Assets Investor submits: by Sumit Roy The bleeding in commodity-related exchange-traded products didn’t entirely stop last week, but it sure slowed down. Investors took out a relatively modest $280 million from said ETPs, dropping total assets to $161 billion. But assets are actually about $1 billion higher than last week, due to modest gains in most commodity prices.

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Sumit Roy Another week of significant volatility in commodity markets led to more investor skittishness, as $2.1 billion of capital flowed out of commodity-related exchange-traded products. Total assets in such products fell by an even more significant $4.6 billion, due to capital depreciation.

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Sumit Roy Commodity ETPs have seenmore outflows, but one agriculture ETF continues its hot streak. Spiking oil and corn prices didn’t stop commodity-related exchange-traded products from experiencing their fifth outflow in six weeks, as economic concerns and falling stock prices created a dreary mood among investors.

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Sumit Roy

Hard Assets Investor submits: by Sumit Roy Fresh investor buying helped equity markets advance to new multiyear highs this past week, as the Federal Reserve signaled it would keep monetary policy accommodative for a while longer. Commodity exchange-traded products weren't left out of the buying spree; $750 million of new capital flowed into the space, helping send total assets to $179 billion.

By Hard Assets Investor: Energy sees the largest inflow in an overall positive week, but natural gas funds see price weakness.

By Hard Assets Investor: by Sumit Roy It was a slow week for ETP flows, but investors remained interested in precious metals. It was an uneventful week for commodity-related exchange-traded product flows, as every sector saw only fractional movements.Precious metals and broad market (multicommodity) ETPs had inflows of $70 million and $31 million, respectively. Agriculture, energy and industrial metals ETPs had outflows of $66 million, $62 million and $4 million, respectively.