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Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for May 1st. The commodity bear market of 2015 has certainly ended here in the first and second quarter of 2016. Quite often, as the dollar weakens, a lot of investors do go into commodities. They usually start with precious metals and work their way down. I think gold was the first market to rally this year, and now we have corn, soybeans, cocoa, sugar, and crude oil all following along very nicely. The fundamentals in commodities right now have improved slightly, and the thinking there is that the Chinese economy has stopped falling and is about to get slightly better. How many commodities do they need, do they need steel, do they need iron ore, do they need copper? Probably not; however, they did let a lot of their surplus of supplies dwindle, and now they’re probably restocking and that’s probably a big push to the upside right now in commodities. The other driving force to higher commodity prices is the weaker U.S. Dollar