How major commodities performed in 2012
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Although gold saw a good run in stock markets around the world, it wasn't the only commodity that performed well.
Let's take a look at how some of the major commodities performed in 2012, according to Oppenheimer.
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Image: Tourists sit on a hill overlooking Athens outside the archaeological site of the Acropolis.
Photographs: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
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Soybean
Performance in 2012: 18.38 per cent up
Overall rank: 1
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Image: Soybeans are loaded in a sowing machine in Estacion Islas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Photographs: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters
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Natural gas
Performance in 2012: 12.11 per cent up
Overall rank: 2
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Image: An offshore platform of Aramco's gas field in Saudi Arabia's territorial waters.
Photographs: Handout/Reuters
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Silver
Performance in 2012: 8.24 per cent up
Overall rank: 3
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Image: A commemorative silver 25 rouble coin in Moscow.
Photographs: Stringer/Reuters
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Corn
Performance in 2012: 8.00 per cent up
Overall rank: 4
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Image: A man throws corn at a factory in Son La province, west of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Photographs: Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters
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Gold
Performance in 2012: 6.96 per cent up
Overall rank: 5
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Image: A gold Combibar at a refiner and bar manufacturer Valcambi in Swiss town of Balerna.
Photographs: Michael Buholzer/Reuters
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Cocoa
Performance in 2012: 6.02 per cent up
Overall rank: 6
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Image: A farmer displays cocoa beans in Pinrang district in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province.
Photographs: Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters
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Wheat
Performance in 2012: 5.99 per cent up
Overall rank: 7
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Image: A combine harvester works on a wheat field in General Belgrano, 160km west of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Photographs: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters
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Live cattle
Performance in 2012: 5.70 per cent up
Overall rank: 8
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Image: Some of the 500 dairy cows owned by Brian Brown of the Sunburst Dairy farm in Belleville, Wisconsin.
Photographs: Darren Hauck/Reuters
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Petrol
Performance in 2012: 4.68 per cent up
Overall rank: 9
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Image: A pump attendant fills cars at a BP petrol station in Moscow.
Photographs: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
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Copper
Performance in 2012: 4.36 per cent up
Overall rank: 10
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Image: An excavator at a copper mine in Sarlingyi township, Myanmar.
Photographs: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
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Heating oil
Performance in 2012: 3.75 per cent up
Overall rank: 11
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Image: Two workers pull a cart inside Brod refinery in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photographs: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
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Aluminium
Performance in 2012: 2.62 per cent up
Overall rank: 12
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Image: An employee inside the Tajikistan Aluminium's smelter complex, 50km west from the Tajik capital of Dushanbe.
Photographs: Nozim Kalandrov/Reuters
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Lean hogs
Performance in 2012: 1.69 per cent up
Overall rank: 13
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Image: A clerk takes a break outside the lean hog pit of the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago, Illinois.
Photographs: Frank Polich/Reuters
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WTI Crude
Performance in 2012: 7.09 per cent down
Overall rank: 14
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Image: An oil tank at the OMV refinery in Schwechat, 16km east of Vienna.
Photographs: Herwig Prammer/Reuters
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Nickel
Performance in 2012: 8.82 per cent down
Overall rank: 15
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Image: A nickel smelter belonging to PT Indoferro undergoes contruction in Cilegon in Indonesia's West Java province.
Photographs: Enny Nuraheni/Reuters
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Sugar
Performance in 2012: 16.27 per cent down
Overall rank: 16
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Image: A worker examines sacks of sugar at a Cuban factory in Calimete.
Photographs: Enrique de la Osa/Reuters
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Cotton
Performance in 2012: 18.15 per cent down
Overall rank: 17
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Image: A boy separates starched sarees left to dry on the roof of a cotton factory in Hyderabad.
Photographs: Krishnendu Halder/Reuters
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Orange juice
Performance in 2012: 29.12 per cent down
Overall rank: 18
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Image: Oranges are loaded in a truck on a farm in Limeira, Brazil.
Photographs: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
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