New York, 29 December 2009

The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was up 2.60% for the month of December. The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for Natural Gas, Sugar and Nickel had the strongest gains with month to date returns of 20.60%, 20.41%, and 13.57%, respectively. The three most significant downside performing single commodity indexes were Wheat, Gold and Silver, which were down -6.45%, -6.29%, and -5.21% respectively, in December.

Year-to-date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is up 19.45% with the Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub-Index posting the highest gain of 128.92% so far in 2009.  Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Sub-Index has the most significant downside YTD performance, down -47.85%.

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For further details, please see the attached report.

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