Monday, November 1, 2010

Commodity Index Weighting Changed

Dow Jones Indexes and UBS Investment Bank announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index SM that will become effective in early January 2011.

The new target weights for the commodity components are listed below.

Natural Gas 11.2189620%
Crude Oil 14.7092970%
Unleaded Gasoline 3.4966710%
Heating Oil 3.5750700%
Live Cattle 3.3591330%
Lean Hogs 2.0000000%
Wheat 4.6052380%
Corn 6.9785370%
Soybeans 7.8568150%
Soybean Oil 2.9372440%
Aluminum 5.2032850%
Copper 7.5390900%
Zinc 2.8493550%
Nickel 2.2508150%
Lead 0.0000000%
Tin 0.0000000%
Gold 10.4490670%
Silver 3.2896330%
Platinum 0.0000000%
Sugar 3.3260140%
Cotton 2.0000000%
Coffee 2.3557730%
Cocoa 0.0000000%

The target weights are determined in accordance with construction rules described in the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Handbook, which is available for download at http://www.djindexes.com/.