The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was down -8.43% for the month of May. The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for Sugar and Natural Gas had the strongest gains with month-to-date returns of 3.30% and 1.38%, respectively. The Dow Jones-UBS Gold Sub-Index had the narrowest downside MTD performance of -0.38%. The three most significant downside performing single commodity indexes were Crude Oil, Lead, and Nickel, which were down -20.73%, -19.08%, and -18.90% respectively, in May.
Year to date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is down -11.38% with the Dow Jones-UBS Nickel Sub-Index posting the highest gain of 14.62% so far in 2010. Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Sub-Index has the most significant downside YTD performance, down -41.27%.
|
Index Name |
Index Close 12/31/2009 |
Index Close 4/30/2010 |
Index Close 5/21/2010 |
Month-to-Date Percent Change |
Year-to-Date Percent Change |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Commodity
Index |
139.187 |
134.704 |
123.346 |
-8.43% |
-11.38% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Energy
Sub-Index |
130.794 |
122.788 |
105.107 |
-14.40% |
-19.64% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Crude Oil Sub-Index |
260.122 |
277.966 |
220.334 |
-20.73% |
-15.30% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Sub-Index |
5.271 |
3.628 |
3.678 |
1.38% |
-30.22% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Heating Oil Sub-Index |
186.358 |
200.098 |
163.454 |
-18.31% |
-12.29% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Unleaded Gas Sub-Index |
318.796 |
343.530 |
279.356 |
-18.68% |
-12.37% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Petroleum
Sub-Index |
259.308 |
277.768 |
222.271 |
-19.98% |
-14.28% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Livestock
Sub-Index |
34.394 |
37.255 |
35.928 |
-3.56% |
4.46% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Lean Hogs Sub-Index |
10.637 |
11.792 |
11.186 |
-5.14% |
5.16% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Live Cattle Sub-Index |
64.154 |
68.412 |
66.723 |
-2.47% |
4.00% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS ExEnergy
Sub-Index |
108.730 |
106.744 |
100.743 |
-5.62% |
-7.35% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Grains
Sub-Index |
49.702 |
44.268 |
42.299 |
-4.45% |
-14.89% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Corn Sub-Index |
14.424 |
12.261 |
12.057 |
-1.67% |
-16.41% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Sub-Index |
160.084 |
149.534 |
140.853 |
-5.81% |
-12.01% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Wheat Sub-Index |
20.742 |
18.191 |
17.070 |
-6.16% |
-17.70% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Industrial
Metals Sub-Index |
174.165 |
178.806 |
157.550 |
-11.89% |
-9.54% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Aluminum Sub-Index |
54.362 |
53.912 |
48.945 |
-9.21% |
-9.97% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub-Index |
370.260 |
366.825 |
334.829 |
-8.72% |
-9.57% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Nickel Sub-Index |
210.270 |
297.197 |
241.014 |
-18.90% |
14.62% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Zinc Sub-Index |
98.026 |
86.043 |
70.939 |
-17.55% |
-27.63% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Precious
Metals Sub-Index |
160.817 |
174.417 |
171.519 |
-1.66% |
6.65% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Gold Sub-Index |
141.938 |
152.517 |
151.934 |
-0.38% |
7.04% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Silver Sub-Index |
189.741 |
209.283 |
198.189 |
-5.30% |
4.45% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Softs
Sub-Index |
61.349 |
52.190 |
51.921 |
-0.52% |
-15.37% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Coffee Sub-Index |
25.475 |
24.700 |
24.171 |
-2.14% |
-5.12% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Cotton Sub-Index |
17.519 |
18.829 |
18.569 |
-1.38% |
6.00% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Sub-Index |
212.928 |
121.052 |
125.047 |
3.30% |
-41.27% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture
Sub-Index |
65.702 |
58.596 |
56.481 |
-3.61% |
-14.04% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Soybean Oil Sub-Index |
69.965 |
65.187 |
61.888 |
-5.06% |
-11.54% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Cocoa Sub-Index |
42.594 |
41.289 |
36.904 |
-10.62% |
-13.36% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Lead Sub-Index |
258.751 |
234.367 |
189.639 |
-19.08% |
-26.71% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Platinum Sub-Index |
418.823 |
495.479 |
426.230 |
-13.98% |
1.77% |
|
Dow Jones-UBS Tin Sub-Index |
291.401 |
312.087 |
300.779 |
-3.62% |
3.22% |
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 fourth quarter of 2009, an estimated $52 billion tracked the DJ-UBSCI group of indexes.
