Looking at the quote boards this morning, I saw lots of red numbers. Let me stress the word LOTS. Commodities and stocks both woke up on the wrong side of bed today.
Such circumstances get my caffeine-starved brain to thinking. In this...
Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, announced new target weightings for commodity futures in the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2006. The new target weights, which were determined,...
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The Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index , which is composed of futures contracts on physical commodities according to the weights in the bottom graph above, fell to a five-year low of 125.93 Tuesday, the lowest level since November 2003 (see top chart above). From the July peak, the AIG index has fallen 47%, the largest four-month percentage decrease in the 48-year history of the AIG going back to 1960.