The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was up 2.93% for the month of April. The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for Silver, Corn and Coffee had the strongest gains with month-to-date returns of 24.41%, 10.02%, and 8.91%, respectively. The three most significant downside performing single commodity indexes were Cotton, Sugar and Live Cattle, which were down 10.57%, 9.78%, and 6.76% respectively, in April.
Year to date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is up 7.47% with the Dow Jones-UBS Silver Sub-Index posting the highest gain of 52.24% so far in 2011. Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Sub-Index has the most significant downside YTD performance, down 19.08%.
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