Commodity style integration is appealing because by forming a unique long-short portfolio with exposure to K mildly correlated factors, a larger and more stable risk premium can be extracted than with any of the standalone styles. A key decision that a commodity style-integration investor faces...

We examine the commodity futures pricing role of active attention to weather, disease,geopolitical or economic threats or “hazard fear” as proxied by the volume of internet searches by 149 query terms. A long-short portfolio strategy that sorts the cross-section of commodity futures...