The NASDAQ Commodity Index Family provides a broad way to track U.S. dollar denominated commodities traded on U.S. and U.K. exchanges. NASDAQ‘s transparent and rules-based selection criteria result in a diverse index family with significant exposure across major commodity sectors. The family consists of individual and sector indices based on 33 different futures-based commodities with the primary benchmark being the NASDAQ Commodity Benchmark Index (NQCI). The NASDAQ Commodity Indexes include five main sectors and five additional sub and diversified sectors.
- Sector Indices include: Energy, Industrial Metals, Precious Metals, Agriculture, Livestock
- Single Commodity Indices include: Copper, Gold, Soybeans. Coffee and more.
Key Features and Coverage on RIMES
As of April 1, 2011, RIMES Technologies is NASDAQ OMX’s Elite Index Data Partner, offering the full suite of index weights and components data.
For this data source, RIMES hosts approximately 1150 futures and 50 indices, including the NASDAQ Commodity Benchmark Index.
Some of the data items available include:
- Future Items: Clean Price, Date of Portfolio, Exchange Identification Code, Exchange Rate, Investable Weight, Investable Weight in Index (Source), Market Value, Next Date of Portfolio, Price Factor, Roll In – Roll Out Contract Flag, Underlying Contract, etc.
- Index Items: Currency Code, Database Domain Code, Database Source, Database Symbol, Description, Total Index Holdings, Total Securities Open Interest, Divisor Factor in Local Currency, Excess Return, Gross Index, Gross Index Divisor, Market Capitalization, Unadjusted High Price, Unadjusted Low Price, etc.
