Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2009. The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Supervisory Committee in August 2008 following consultation with the Dow Jones – AIG Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.
| Natural Gas | 11.8900640% |
| Crude
Oil
|
13.7526330% |
| Unleaded
Gas
|
3.7091280% |
| Heating
Oil
|
3.6481740% |
| Live Cattle | 4.2 |
| Lean
Hogs
|
2.3988780% |
| Wheat
|
4.7962120% |
| Corn
|
5.7214090% |
| Soybeans
|
7.5994330% |
| Soybean
Oil
|
2.8828690% |
| Aluminum
|
6.9991660% |
| Copper
|
7.3065410% |
| Zinc
|
3.1424310% |
| Nickel
|
2.8827230% |
| Gold
|
7.8627470% |
| Silver
|
2.8913020% |
| Sugar | 2.9931550% |
| Cotton
|
2.2651500% |
| Coffee
|
2.9726400% |
These weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Multipliers for 2009 in January 2009. 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-, Yen-, Sterling-, and Swiss Franc-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. As of the end of the second quarter of 2008, an estimated $55 billion tracked the DJ-AIGCI group of indexes.
