The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was up 1.29% for the month of August. The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for unleaded gas, orange juice and silver had the strongest gains with month-end returns of 13.62%, 13.35% and 12.31%, respectively. The three most significant downside performing single commodity indexes were natural gas, sugar and lean hogs, which ended the month down 14.44%, 12.63 %, and 7.63% respectively.
Year to date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is up 3.80% with the Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Meal Subindex posting the highest gain of 85.62% so far in 2012. Dow Jones-UBS Coffee Subindex has the most significant downside YTD performance, down 30.81%.
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