Bad US weather driving commodity prices in unexpected ways

Adverse weather is affecting US commodity prices in some obvious and some more surprising ways. As would be expected, the prices of energy and some agricultural commodities have surged. But less intuitively, the weather may have contributed to the increase in the price of gold, whilst the price of wheat has actually fallen.

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