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The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is a broadly diversified commodity price index distributed by Bloomberg Index Services Limited.The index was originally launched in 1998 as the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI) and renamed to Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index (DJ-UBSCI) in 2009, when UBS acquired the index from AIG.
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.
In just about every case the index is in fact a Commodity Futures Index. The first such index was the Dow Jones Commodity Index, which began in 1933. [23] The first practically investable commodity futures index was the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, created in 1991, [24] and known as the "GSCI". The next was the Dow Jones AIG Commodity Index.
The S&P GSCI contains as many commodities as possible, with rules excluding certain commodities to maintain liquidity and investability in the underlying futures markets. The index currently comprises 24 commodities from all commodity sectors - energy products, industrial metals, agricultural products, livestock products and precious metals.
Silver futures are up 21% in the past year. Precious metal prices have gone up because investors are betting that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in the back half of the year.
In practice, the expected future spot price is unknown, and the term "backwardation" may refer to "positive basis", which occurs when the current spot price exceeds the price of the future. [3]: 22 The opposite market condition to normal backwardation is known as contango. Contango refers to "negative basis" where the future price is trading ...
Trafigura faced margin calls in the billions of dollars last week, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. The increased margin calls – essentially requests to deposit extra ...
The last reading of the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index — showed an easing to 2.4% in November. That is down considerably from a ...