The Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index was up 7.55% for the month of October.

The Dow Jones-UBS Single Commodity Indexes for Wheat, Corn and Unleaded Gas had the strongest gains with month-to-date returns of 19.73%, 15.62%, and 15.58%, respectively.

Sugar and Natural Gas posted the most significant downside performing single commodity indexes, down -8.94%, -2.90% respectively, in October.

Year-to-date, the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index is up 17.12% with the Dow Jones-UBS Lead Sub-Index posting the highest gain of 128.07% so far in 2009. Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Sub-Index has the most significant downside YTD performance, down -48.19%.