Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, announced new target weightings for the commodity futures in the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2007. The new target weights, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Oversight Committee in July 2006, are listed below.
| Natural Gas | 12.546191% |
| Crude Oil | 12.723561% |
| Unleaded Gas (RBOB) | 3.940958% |
| Heating Oil | 3.789289% |
| Live Cattle | 6.141286% |
| Lean Hogs | 3.013524% |
| Wheat | 4.715495% |
| Corn | 5.627129% |
| Soybeans | 7.747790% |
| Soybean Oil | 2.845646% |
| Aluminum | 6.803820% |
| Copper | 6.187758% |
| Zinc | 2.798069% |
| Nickel | 2.715318% |
| Gold | 6.825901% |
| Silver | 2.288179% |
| Sugar | 3.122271% |
| Cotton | 3.146094% |
| Coffee | 3.021718% |
These weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Multipliers for 2007 on January 5, 2007. These multipliers, computed once a year, are factors used to express the percentage weights in U.S. dollar-denominated terms when calculating the index.
Launched in 1998, the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity index family includes nine sector sub-indexes, multiple forward month indexes, indexes for each individual commodity in the original DJ-AIGCI, euro- and yen-denominated versions of the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index, and the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Spot Index. Also available are total return versions of each of the excess return indexes and sub-indexes. Currently, there is an estimated $30 billion invested in financial products that track the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index on a global basis.
