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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 ...
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 following is a list of futures contracts on physically traded commodities. Agricultural ... London Metal Exchange: Precious Metals. Commodity Contract size Currency
Commodity price index. 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 ...
The S&P GSCI is a world-production weighted index that is based on the average quantity of production of each commodity in the index, over the last five years of available data. This allows the S&P GSCI to be a measure of investment performance as well as serve as an economic indicator. Production weighting is a quintessential attribute for the ...
LME Zinc. LME Zinc stands for a group of spot, forward, and futures contracts traded on the London Metal Exchange (LME), for delivery of special high-grade Zinc with a 99.995% purity minimum that can be used for price hedging, physical delivery of sales or purchases, investment, and speculation. Producers, semi-fabricators, consumers, recyclers ...
LME Aluminium. LME Aluminium (or LME Aluminum in American and Canadian English) stands for a group of spot, forward, and futures contracts, trading on the London Metal Exchange (LME), for delivery of primary Aluminium that can be used for price hedging, physical delivery of sales or purchases, investment, and speculation. [ 1]
The index was designed to meet the need for consistent investing in commodities through a broad-based international vehicle. The index tracks 38 [1] commodity futures contracts from 13 international exchanges. The list of commodities is subject to change by the RICI Committee.