How major commodities performed in 2012

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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

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

Performance in 2012: 18.38 per cent up

Overall rank: 1

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How major commodities performed in 2012

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

Performance in 2012: 12.11 per cent up

Overall rank: 2

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Image: A commemorative silver 25 rouble coin in Moscow.
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Silver

Performance in 2012: 8.24 per cent up

Overall rank: 3

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

Performance in 2012: 8.00 per cent up

Overall rank: 4

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Image: A gold Combibar at a refiner and bar manufacturer Valcambi in Swiss town of Balerna.
Photographs: Michael Buholzer/Reuters

Gold

Performance in 2012: 6.96 per cent up

Overall rank: 5

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

Performance in 2012: 6.02 per cent up

Overall rank: 6

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How major commodities performed in 2012

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

Performance in 2012: 5.99 per cent up

Overall rank: 7

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

Performance in 2012: 5.70 per cent up

Overall rank: 8

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

Performance in 2012: 4.68 per cent up

Overall rank: 9

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How major commodities performed in 2012

Image: An excavator at a copper mine in Sarlingyi township, Myanmar.
Photographs: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters

Copper

Performance in 2012: 4.36 per cent up

Overall rank: 10

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Image: Two workers pull a cart inside Brod refinery in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Heating oil

Performance in 2012: 3.75 per cent up

Overall rank: 11

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

Performance in 2012: 2.62 per cent up

Overall rank: 12

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

Performance in 2012: 1.69 per cent up

Overall rank: 13

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Image: An oil tank at the OMV refinery in Schwechat, 16km east of Vienna.
Photographs: Herwig Prammer/Reuters

WTI Crude

Performance in 2012: 7.09 per cent down

Overall rank: 14

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How major commodities performed in 2012

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

Performance in 2012: 8.82 per cent down

Overall rank: 15

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