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, approved and previously announced by the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Oversight Committee in August 2005, are listed below.
| Natural Gas | 12.315174% |
| Crude Oil | 12.783801% |
| Unleaded Gas | 4.054908% |
| Heating Oil | 3.846118% |
| Live Cattle | 6.093791% |
| Lean Hogs | 4.351381% |
| Wheat | 4.772085% |
| Corn | 5.873635% |
| Soybeans | 7.766934% |
| Soybean Oil | 2.765764% |
| Aluminum | 6.851975% |
| Copper | 5.880787% |
| Zinc | 2.702377% |
| Nickel | 2.659153% |
| Gold | 6.220211% |
| Silver | 2.000000% |
| Sugar | 2.967351% |
| Cotton | 3.163003% |
| Coffee | 2.931553% |
These weights will be used to determine the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Multipliers for 2006 on Jan. 6, 2006. These multipliers, computed once a year, are factors used to express the percentage weights in U.S. dollar-denominated terms when calculating the index.
Launched in 1998, the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity index family includes nine sector sub-indexes, euro- and yen-denominated versions of the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index, and the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Spot Index. Also available are total return versions of each of the indexes and sub-indexes, with the exception of the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Spot Index. Currently, there is an estimated $20 billion invested in financial products that track the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index on a global basis.
