31.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed sharply lower Monday as investors in commodity funds sold contracts.

32.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed up sharply as buying by investors in commodity funds surfaced Friday.

33.   Kansas City and Chicago wheat futures prices closed solidly lower Thursday as slack export demand prompted heavy selling by investors in commodity funds.

34.   Kansas City wheat and Chicago wheat, corn and soybean futures prices tumbled Thursday on active selling by investors in commodity funds.

35.   Large commodity funds have been buying corn futures for weeks on speculation that prices would rise and probably are adding to their long positions, traders said.

36.   Selling by speculative commodity funds has been a major reason prices have dropped so suddenly.

37.   Selling by investors in commodity funds prompted the price drop.

38.   Silver markets also have rallied as speculative commodity funds entered the market, betting that prices were headed higher.

39.   Soybean futures fell for the fourth consecutive trading day, pressured by active selling by investors in commodity funds.

40.   Speculation that mining companies are selling gold encouraged commodity funds, which speculate in the gold market, to sell their holdings as well, pushing prices lower.