NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2009 — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and UBS Investment Bank announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index(SM) that will become effective in early January 2010. The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Supervisory Committee following consultation with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.
| 2010 Target Weights | |
|---|---|
| Natural Gas | 11.552187% |
| Crude Oil | 14.337966% |
| Unleaded Gasoline | 3.527440% |
| Heating Oil | 3.582407% |
| Live Cattle | 3.553730% |
| Lean Hogs | 2.102720% |
| Wheat | 4.704602% |
| Corn | 7.092432% |
| Soybeans | 7.912497% |
| Soybean Oil | 2.995562% |
| Aluminum | 5.749281% |
| Copper | 7.641377% |
| Zinc | 3.019973% |
| Nickel | 2.366828% |
| Lead | 0.000000% |
| Tin | 0.000000% |
| Gold | 9.116555% |
| Silver | 3.286970% |
| Platinum | 0.000000% |
| Sugar | 2.892860% |
| Cotton | 2.000000% |
| Coffee | 2.564615% |
| Cocoa | 0.000000% |
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. These rules combine liquidity and production data in a 2:1 ratio, subject to further requirements as to diversification and minimum weightings. The resulting weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Multipliers for 2010 in January 2010. These multipliers, computed once a year, are factors used to express the percentage weights in U.S. dollar-denominated terms when calculating the Index.
For comparison the target weights for 2009 were as follows:
| 2009 Target Weights | |
|---|---|
| Natural Gas | 11.890064% |
| Crude Oil | 13.752633% |
| Unleaded Gasoline | 3.709128% |
| Heating Oil | 3.648174% |
| Live Cattle | 4.285345% |
| Lean Hogs | 2.398878% |
| Wheat | 4.796212% |
| Corn | 5.721409% |
| Soybeans | 7.599433% |
| Soybean Oil | 2.882869% |
| Aluminum | 6.999166% |
| Copper | 7.306541% |
| Zinc | 3.142431% |
| Nickel | 2.882723% |
| Gold | 7.862747% |
| Silver | 2.891302% |
| Sugar | 2.993155% |
| Cotton | 2.265150% |
| Coffee | 2.972640% |
Launched in 1998, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity index family includes nine sector sub-indexes, multiple forward month indexes, indexes for each individual commodity in the original DJ-UBSCI, Euro-, Yen-, Sterling-, and Swiss Franc-denominated versions of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index, and the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Spot Index. Also available are total return versions of each of the excess return indexes and sub-indexes. As of the end of the first quarter of 2009, an estimated $27.5 billion tracked the DJ-UBSCI group of indexes.
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