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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 2008. The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Supervisory Committee in August 2007 following consultation with the Dow Jones – AIG Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.
Natural Gas 12.2370840%Crude Oil 13.1565920%
Gasoline 3.7837980%
Heating Oil 3.8225250%
Live Cattle 4.8874000%
Lean Hogs 2.5481230%
Wheat 4.7034060%
Corn 5.6634570%
Soybeans 7.6285410%
Soybean Oil 2.8119330%
Aluminum 7.1079710%
Copper 7.0405160%
Zinc 3.0330160%
Nickel 2.7917080%
Gold 7.3961900%
Silver 2.7214230%
Sugar 3.1851450%
Cotton 2.4795880%
Coffee 3.0015850%
These weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Multipliers for 2008 in January 2008. 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. There is an estimated $38 billion invested in financial products that track the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index on a global basis.
