Iowa Public Television   Market Plus: Alan Brugler  posted on
January 4, 2013  Pearson: This is the Friday, January 4, 2013
version of the Market Plus segment.  Joining us now is Alan
Brugler.  Alan, welcome back.  Brugler: Good to be here.
Pearson: Glad to have you.  We've got a lot of questions send in
via Twitter and Facebook and so I'd like to get your opinion on
a couple of them.  Martin in Carroll, Iowa is asking, what is
causing all of this volatility?  Is it just the fiscal cliff
deadline issue?  Or what is really driving it out there?
Brugler: Well, I think one particular reason is just the level
of prices.  We are still at historically high prices even though
we have sold off from where we were back in the fall.  You've
got people who were trading the drought market that are still
trying to get out of those positions.  They're realizing it's
over and they're not sure there's another drought in 2013.  So
you've got some come and go there.  You've had a few hedge funds
that have just decided to get