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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 .
A commodity price index is a fixed-weight index or (weighted) average of selected commodity prices, which may be based on spot or futures prices. It is designed to be representative of the broad commodity asset class or a specific subset of commodities, such as energy or metals. It is an index that tracks a basket of commodities to measure ...
The 2000s commodities boom or the commodities super cycle[ 1] was the rise of many physical commodity prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, chemicals and fuels) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), [ 2] following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s. The boom was largely due to the rising demand from emerging ...
Jun.10 -- "Bloomberg Commodities Edge" talks to the smartest voices in the commodity world about the companies, the physical assets and the trading behind the hottest commodities.
Commodity Prices Rise in January on Bullish Data, Rising Optimism UBS Bloomberg CM Commodity Index (CMCITR) outperformed other "constant maturity" indexes to start the year NEW YORK--(BUSINESS ...
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 96 cents to $76.19 per barrel Thursday. Brent crude for October delivery rose 83 cents to $79.16 per barrel. Wholesale gasoline for September ...
Jeffrey Currie. Jeff Currie is an economist and currently Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways at The Carlyle Group. He is the former Global Head of Commodities Research in the Global Investment Research Division at Goldman Sachs. He rose to prominence during the 2000s by forecasting the commodity super-cycle and oil spiking above $100 a ...
A commodity market is a market that trades in the primary economic sector rather than manufactured products, such as cocoa, fruit and sugar. Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil. [ 1] Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities. [citation needed] Commodity markets can include physical trading and derivatives ...