The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) and Nikkei Inc. (Nikkei) announced today the removal of Raw Sugar Futures as a component of the jointly published Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index. This change will be effective as of February 2, 2015. TOCOM also announced today the suspension of trading of the Raw Sugar futures at the end of January.
TOCOM and Nikkei will remove Raw Sugar Futures as a component of the Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index, the Nikkei-TOCOM Nearby Month Commodity Index and the Nikkei-TOCOM Agricultural Product & Sugar Index and revise the respective component weightings. The Nikkei-TOCOM Raw Sugar Index will also be discontinued.
The component weightings of the subject indexes will be revised as follows:
[Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index ] and [ Nikkei-TOCOM Nearby Month Commodity Index ]
| Gold | Silver | Platinum | Palladium | Gasoline | Kerosene | Crude Oil | Rubber | Soybean | Azuki | Corn |
| 27.71% | 0.59% | 7.70% | 0.53% | 18.00% | 8.02% | 32.06% | 2.28% | 0.94% | 0.17% | 2.00% |
[ Nikkei-TOCOM Agricultural Product & Sugar Index ]
| Soybean | Azuki | Corn | ||||||
| 30.01% | 5.58% | 64.41% | ||||||
For more information about the Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index, pleaser refer to the "Nikkei-TOCOM Commodity Index Guidebook", available for download from the TOCOM website
