The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was up 2.60% for the month of December. The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for Natural Gas, Sugar and Nickel had the strongest gains with month to date returns of 20.60%, 20.41%, and 13.57%, respectively. The three most significant downside performing single commodity indexes were Wheat, Gold and Silver, which were down -6.45%, -6.29%, and -5.21% respectively, in December.
Year-to-date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is up 19.45% with the Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub-Index posting the highest gain of 128.92% so far in 2009. Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Sub-Index has the most significant downside YTD performance, down -47.85%.
|
Index Name |
Index Close 12/31/2008 |
Index Close 11/30/2009 |
Index Close 12/28/2009 |
Month-to-Date Percent Change |
Year-to-Date Percent Change |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Commodity
Index |
117.244 |
136.493 |
140.046 |
2.60% |
19.45% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Energy
Sub-Index |
138.342 |
127.973 |
132.555 |
3.58% |
-4.18% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Crude Oil Sub-Index |
249.654 |
263.292 |
258.269 |
-1.91% |
3.45% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Sub-Index |
10.898 |
4.713 |
5.684 |
20.60% |
-47.85% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Heating Oil Sub-Index |
154.853 |
184.086 |
184.856 |
0.42% |
19.38% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Unleaded Gas Sub-Index |
182.814 |
318.256 |
316.565 |
-0.53% |
73.16% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Petroleum
Sub-Index |
218.487 |
260.844 |
257.433 |
-1.31% |
17.83% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Livestock
Sub-Index |
40.562 |
34.525 |
34.019 |
-1.46% |
-16.13% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Lean Hogs Sub-Index |
13.744 |
10.844 |
10.491 |
-3.25% |
-23.67% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Live Cattle Sub-Index |
71.212 |
63.819 |
63.559 |
-0.41% |
-10.75% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS ExEnergy
Sub-Index |
82.513 |
106.777 |
109.006 |
2.09% |
32.11% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Grains
Sub-Index |
50.614 |
51.283 |
49.736 |
-3.02% |
-1.74% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Corn Sub-Index |
16.076 |
14.528 |
14.476 |
-0.36% |
-9.96% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Sub-Index |
130.444 |
163.251 |
158.481 |
-2.92% |
21.49% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Wheat Sub-Index |
28.083 |
22.552 |
21.097 |
-6.45% |
-24.88% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Industrial
Metals Sub-Index |
96.922 |
161.944 |
173.910 |
7.39% |
79.43% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Aluminum Sub-Index |
40.686 |
50.453 |
55.022 |
9.06% |
35.23% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub-Index |
161.256 |
351.507 |
369.154 |
5.02% |
128.92% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Nickel Sub-Index |
135.976 |
186.430 |
211.735 |
13.57% |
55.71% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Zinc Sub-Index |
49.509 |
89.352 |
95.602 |
6.99% |
93.10% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Precious
Metals Sub-Index |
124.668 |
174.470 |
164.066 |
-5.96% |
31.60% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Gold Sub-Index |
115.713 |
153.086 |
143.453 |
-6.29% |
23.97% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Silver Sub-Index |
128.719 |
208.665 |
197.795 |
-5.21% |
53.66% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Softs
Sub-Index |
42.599 |
57.051 |
61.856 |
8.42% |
45.21% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Coffee Sub-Index |
23.132 |
26.608 |
25.662 |
-3.56% |
10.94% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Cotton Sub-Index |
13.484 |
17.305 |
17.570 |
1.53% |
30.30% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Sub-Index |
114.499 |
178.875 |
215.377 |
20.41% |
88.10% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture
Sub-Index |
57.870 |
65.001 |
65.830 |
1.27% |
13.76% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Oil Sub-Index |
61.365 |
70.348 |
68.713 |
-2.32% |
11.97% |
Dow Jones-UBS |
35.990 |
42.206 |
41.830 |
-0.89% |
16.23% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Lead Sub-Index |
111.191 |
250.663 |
250.122 |
-0.22% |
124.95% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Platinum Sub-Index |
272.324 |
416.947 |
424.147 |
1.73% |
55.75% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Tin Sub-Index |
172.914 |
261.909 |
278.611 |
6.38% |
61.13% |
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 cocoa, lead, platinum 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.
As of the end of the third quarter of 2009, an estimated $43 billion tracked the DJ-UBSCI group of indexes.
