Investors Eye Commodities, Shun Equities

Investors are shifting their money to commodities.

Investors are shifting their money to commodities, Reuters reports. As per fund flows tracker EPFR Global, commodity funds have gathered $1.465 billion in assets in the first two weeks of July 2011.

Commodities posted more than 3% portfolio gain in a week, while 17 other equity and sector fund groups tracked by EPFR Global faced a downturn. Investors removed about $3.9 billion from commodities in the second quarter of 2011, according to Barclays Capital.

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