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The Refinitiv Equal Weight Commodity Index (formerly known as the Continuous Commodity Index) is a major US barometer of commodity prices. The index comprises 17 commodity futures that are continuously rebalanced: cocoa, coffee, copper, corn, cotton, crude oil, gold, heating oil, live cattle, live hogs, natural gas, orange juice, platinum, silver, soybeans, Sugar No. 11, and wheat.
The 1995 revision lowers the number of forward deliveries included to those within six months of the current date, up to a maximum of five delivery months per commodity. However, a minimum of two delivery months must be used to calculate the current price, even if the second contract is outside of the six-month window.
Corn futures prices that approached $6.30 a bushel in June have since tumbled to $4.10, after U.S. farmers ultimately produced record crop yields. "I wish I sold a lot more," Henebry said.
The Grain Merchants: An Illustrated History of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Afton Historical Society Press in collaboration with the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. ISBN 1-890434-74-4. Minter, Adam (August 2006). "Gimme Grain!". The Rake. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28; Minneapolis Public Library (2001).
On the other end of the contract is a seller who is responsible for delivering those items at a specified price. Futures contracts are bought and sold on a wide range of commodities, currencies ...
For futures contracts specifying physical delivery, the delivery month is the month in which the seller must deliver, and the buyer must accept and pay for, the underlying. [1] For contracts specifying cash settlement, the delivery month is the month of a final mark-to-market. The exact dates of acceptable delivery vary considerably and will be ...
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In 1934, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily Commodity price index that became available to the public in 1940. By 1952, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a Spot Market Price Index that measured the price movements of "22 sensitive basic commodities whose markets are presumed to be among the first to be influenced by changes in economic conditions.