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How major commodities performed in 2012

Last updated on: January 4, 2013 08:24 IST
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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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How major commodities performed in 2012

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Soybeans are loaded in a sowing machine in Estacion Islas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Soybean

Performance in 2012: 18.38 per cent up

Overall rank: 1

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An offshore platform of Aramco's gas field in Saudi Arabia's territorial waters.

Natural gas

Performance in 2012: 12.11 per cent up

Overall rank: 2

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A commemorative silver 25 rouble coin in Moscow.

Silver

Performance in 2012: 8.24 per cent up

Overall rank: 3

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A man throws corn at a factory in Son La province, west of Hanoi, Vietnam.

Corn

Performance in 2012: 8.00 per cent up

Overall rank: 4

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A gold Combibar at a refiner and bar manufacturer Valcambi in Swiss town of Balerna.

Gold

Performance in 2012: 6.96 per cent up

Overall rank: 5

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A farmer displays cocoa beans in Pinrang district in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province.

Cocoa

Performance in 2012: 6.02 per cent up

Overall rank: 6

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A combine harvester works on a wheat field in General Belgrano, 160km west of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wheat

Performance in 2012: 5.99 per cent up

Overall rank: 7

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Some of the 500 dairy cows owned by Brian Brown of the Sunburst Dairy farm in Belleville, Wisconsin.

Live cattle

Performance in 2012: 5.70 per cent up

Overall rank: 8

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A pump attendant fills cars at a BP petrol station in Moscow.

Petrol

Performance in 2012: 4.68 per cent up

Overall rank: 9

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An excavator at a copper mine in Sarlingyi township, Myanmar.

Copper

Performance in 2012: 4.36 per cent up

Overall rank: 10

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Two workers pull a cart inside Brod refinery in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Heating oil

Performance in 2012: 3.75 per cent up

Overall rank: 11

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An employee inside the Tajikistan Aluminium's smelter complex, 50km west from the Tajik capital of Dushanbe.

Aluminium

Performance in 2012: 2.62 per cent up

Overall rank: 12

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A clerk takes a break outside the lean hog pit of the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago, Illinois.

Lean hogs

Performance in 2012: 1.69 per cent up

Overall rank: 13

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An oil tank at the OMV refinery in Schwechat, 16km east of Vienna.

WTI Crude

Performance in 2012: 7.09 per cent down

Overall rank: 14

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A nickel smelter belonging to PT Indoferro undergoes contruction in Cilegon in Indonesia's West Java province.

Nickel

Performance in 2012: 8.82 per cent down

Overall rank: 15

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A worker examines sacks of sugar at a Cuban factory in Calimete.

Sugar

Performance in 2012: 16.27 per cent down

Overall rank: 16

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A boy separates starched sarees left to dry on the roof of a cotton factory in Hyderabad.

Cotton

Performance in 2012: 18.15 per cent down

Overall rank: 17

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Oranges are loaded in a truck on a farm in Limeira, Brazil.

Orange juice

Performance in 2012: 29.12 per cent down

Overall rank: 18

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A man weighs coffee beans at Duy Dung coffee shop in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Coffee

Performance in 2012: 36.62 per cent down

Overall rank: 19