The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was down 8.36% for the month of May. The top three performing Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes were orange juice and wheat with month-to-date returns of 7.20% and 0.22%, respectively, while the Dow Jones-UBS Corn Sub-Index posted the narrowest performance drop of 0.33%. Silver, tin and nickel were the three laggards with down performances of 28.18%, 16.68%, and 16.63% respectively, in May.
Year to date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is down 1.01%. The Dow Jones-UBS Corn Sub-Index posted the highest gain of 17.12% so far in 2011 while the Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Sub-Index posted the biggest drop, 25.62%.
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