The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was up 2.47%, for the month of January. The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for tin, orange juice and silver had the strongest gains with month-returns of 26.74%, 24.26% and 19.15%, respectively. The three most significant downside performing single commodity indexes were natural gas, coffee and soybean oil, which ended the month down 17.01%, 5.20%, and 2.96% respectively.
|
Index Name |
Index Close 12/30/2011 |
Index Close 12/30/2011 |
Index Close 1/31/2012 |
January 2012 |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index |
140.680 |
140.680 |
144.156 |
2.47% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Energy Sub-Index |
98.126 |
98.126 |
94.721 |
-3.47% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Crude Oil Sub-Index |
259.683 |
259.683 |
258.319 |
-0.53% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Sub-Index |
1.653 |
1.653 |
1.372 |
-17.01% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Heating Oil Sub-Index |
223.056 |
223.056 |
234.186 |
4.99% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Unleaded Gas Sub-Index |
411.978 |
411.978 |
448.549 |
8.88% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Petroleum Sub-Index |
279.200 |
279.200 |
285.307 |
2.19% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Livestock Sub-Index |
36.648 |
36.648 |
37.491 |
2.30% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Lean Hogs Sub-Index |
10.164 |
10.164 |
10.379 |
2.12% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Live Cattle Sub-Index |
72.869 |
72.869 |
74.618 |
2.40% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS ExEnergy Sub-Index |
124.946 |
124.946 |
131.527 |
5.27% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Grains Sub-Index |
55.315 |
55.315 |
55.314 |
0.00% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Corn Sub-Index |
19.026 |
19.026 |
18.805 |
-1.16% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Sub-Index |
180.281 |
180.281 |
178.974 |
-0.72% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Wheat Sub-Index |
16.560 |
16.560 |
16.897 |
2.03% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Industrial Metals Sub-Index |
153.107 |
153.107 |
169.819 |
10.92% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Aluminum Sub-Index |
44.780 |
44.780 |
49.328 |
10.16% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub-Index |
361.876 |
361.876 |
399.159 |
10.30% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Nickel Sub-Index |
208.952 |
208.952 |
232.498 |
11.27% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Zinc Sub-Index |
64.437 |
64.437 |
73.392 |
13.90% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Precious Metals Sub-Index |
239.410 |
239.410 |
269.778 |
12.68% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Gold Sub-Index |
199.920 |
199.920 |
221.679 |
10.88% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Silver Sub-Index |
309.397 |
309.397 |
368.661 |
19.15% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Softs Sub-Index |
84.228 |
84.228 |
83.625 |
-0.72% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Coffee Sub-Index |
37.709 |
37.709 |
35.747 |
-5.20% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Cotton Sub-Index |
27.129 |
27.129 |
27.558 |
1.58% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Sub-Index |
232.052 |
232.052 |
235.438 |
1.46% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Sub-Index |
77.781 |
77.781 |
77.254 |
-0.68% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Oil Sub-Index |
79.220 |
79.220 |
76.877 |
-2.96% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Cocoa Sub-Index |
25.450 |
25.450 |
27.646 |
8.63% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Lead Sub-Index |
209.116 |
209.116 |
226.548 |
8.34% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Platinum Sub-Index |
389.924 |
389.924 |
440.771 |
13.04% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Tin Sub-Index |
325.886 |
325.886 |
413.032 |
26.74% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Feeder Cattle Sub-Index |
160.986 |
160.986 |
168.262 |
4.52% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Brent Crude Sub-Index |
604.562 |
604.562 |
627.488 |
3.79% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Gas Oil Sub-Index |
340.947 |
340.947 |
355.060 |
4.14% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Orange Juice Sub-Index |
26.213 |
26.213 |
32.572 |
24.26% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Meal Sub-Index |
389.279 |
389.279 |
396.987 |
1.98% |
The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is composed of 19 futures contracts on physical commodities and was introduced in 1999. The DJ-UBSCI family of indexes includes nine sector sub-indexes, multiple forward month indexes; sub-indexes for each individual commodity in the original DJ-UBSCI as well as for brent crude, cocoa, feeder cattle, gas oil, lead, orange juice, platinum, soybean meal and tin.
Also available are Euro-, Yen-, Swiss Franc- and Pounds Sterling-denominated versions of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index; Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Spot IndexSM; and total return versions of each of the excess return indexes and sub-indexes.
