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DROP IN CRUDE OIL IS BEARISH--When crude oil prices rallied in 2008, ag commodity prices followed along as trader after trader talked about how commodity inflation was driving the price of raw goods higher and the value of the U.S. dollar lower.
Now that crude oil prices have erased the 2007-08 rally, trader after trader talks about how commodity deflation is driving the price of raw goods lower and the value of the U.S. dollar higher.

