Although stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) closed lower at the end of the year, December managed to send things out on a high note.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.9% this month. The S&P 500 added 4.3%, while the NASDAQ rose 4.1%.
Just about anything commodity-related was hot in December. Some of the top-performing funds include iPath DJ AIG Coffee (JO), up 17.9%; iPath DJ AIG Cotton (BAL), up 17.3%; iPath DJ AIG Softs (JJS), up 15.5%; Global X Copper Miners (NYSEArca: COPX), up 14.5%; SPDR KBW Regional Banking (NYSEArca: KRE), up 14.1%; and SPDR KBW Bank (NYSEArca: KBE), up 14%.
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