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Dow Jones Indexes And UBS Announce 2011 Weights Of Dow Jones-Ubs Commodity Index

Date 29/10/2010

Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and UBS Investment Bank announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2011. The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Supervisory Committee following consultation with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.

Natural Gas

11.2189620%

Crude Oil

14.7092970%

Unleaded Gasoline

3.4966710%

Heating Oil

3.5750700%

Live Cattle

3.3591330%

Lean Hogs

2.0000000%

Wheat

4.6052380%

Corn

6.9785370%

Soybeans

7.8568150%

Soybean Oil

2.9372440%

Aluminum

5.2032850%

Copper

7.5390900%

Zinc

2.8493550%

Nickel

2.2508150%

Lead

0.0000000%

Tin

0.0000000%

Gold

10.4490670%

Silver

3.2896330%

Platinum

0.0000000%

Sugar

3.3260140%

Cotton

2.0000000%

Coffee

2.3557730%

Cocoa

0.0000000%


The target weights are determined in accordance with construction rules described in the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Handbook, which is available for download at www.djindexes.com. These rules generally combine liquidity and production data in a 2:1 ratio, subject to further requirements as to diversification and minimum weightings. The resulting weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Multipliers for 2011. These multipliers, computed once a year in January are factors used to express the percentage weights in U.S. dollar-denominated terms when calculating the Index.

For comparison the target weights for 2010 were as follows:

Natural Gas

11.5521870%

Crude Oil

14.3379660%

Unleaded Gasoline

3.5274400%

Heating Oil

3.5824070%

Live Cattle

3.5537300%

Lean Hogs

2.1027200%

Wheat

4.7046020%

Corn

7.0924320%

Soybeans

7.9124970%

Soybean Oil

2.9955620%

Aluminum

5.7492810%

Copper

7.6413770%

Zinc

3.0199730%

Nickel

2.3668280%

Lead

0.0000000%

Tin

0.0000000%

Gold

9.1165550%

Silver

3.2869700%

Platinum

0.0000000%

Sugar

2.8928600%

Cotton

2.0000000%

Coffee

2.5646150%

Cocoa

0.0000000%


Launched in 1998, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity index family includes nine sector sub-indexes, multiple forward month indexes, indexes for each individual commodity in the original DJ-UBSCI, Euro-, Yen-, Sterling-, and Swiss Franc-denominated versions of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index, and the Dow Jones-UBS 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 2010, an estimated $59.2 billion tracked the DJ-UBSCI group of indexes.