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The Freightos International Freight Index was first launched as a weekly freight index in early 2017. [7] The Freightos Baltic Index has been in wide use since 2018. [8] It is currently the only freight rate index that is issued daily, and is also the only IOSCO-compliant freight index that is currently regulated by the EU (in particular, the European Securities and Markets Authority).
Container Freight Swap Agreements are a financial futures contract that allow for hedging and speculating against the volatility of seaborne, intermodal container box-rates. [ 1 ] A container freight swaps most commonly takes the form of a cash-settled agreement between two parties with an equal and opposite opinion of the future of the market.
The first index to track commodity futures prices was the Dow Jones futures index which started being listed in 1933 (backfilled to 1924). [1] The next such index was the CRB ("Commodity Research Bureau") Index, which began in 1958. Due to its construction both of these were not useful as an investment index.
Performance Total Return (%) Annualized Total Return (%) Index Name 1-Month 3-Month YTD 2010 1-Year 3-Year 5-Year 10-Year Since Inception* Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM 2.06 4.45 4.45 16.83 28.49 -5.20 2.57 7.07 6.24 Data calculated as of March 31, 2011. Index performance data prior to initial calculation dates are based on back-testing.
Baltic Dry Index 1985 - 2022. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a shipping freight-cost index issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. The BDI is a composite of the Capesize, Panamax and Supramax timecharter averages. It is reported around the world as a proxy for dry bulk shipping stocks as well as a general shipping market bellwether.
The company provides a range of services for importers and exporters, including global freight market intelligence solutions such as the Freightos Baltic Index, freight procurement solutions via Shipsta, which was acquired in 2024, [6] and the freightos.com freight marketplace which enables instant freight quoting, booking, and shipment ...
"In my view, for most people, the best thing to do is to own the S&P 500 index fund," Buffett said at Berkshire's annual meeting 2021. Warren Buffett Recommends This Index Fund. It Could Turn $500 ...
The index is designed to minimize concentration in any one commodity or sector. It currently has 23 commodity futures in six sectors. No one commodity can compose more than 15% of the index, no one commodity and its derived commodities can compose more than 25% of the index, and no sector can represent more than 33% of the index (as of the ...