CMC Markets launches three new indices for the energy, agricultural and precious metals sectors

London, 27 August 2019 – CMC Markets has today announced that it is offering its customers three new commodity indices: the Energy Index, Agricultural Index and Precious Metals Index. According to the company, this gives CMC's clients the opportunity to invest in multiple raw materials simultaneously and cost efficiently, with just one transaction, while also reducing the volatility risk of the individual commodities.

Simon Campbell, Group Head of Trading, commented: "Gold and oil in particular have moved more and more into traders’ focus in recent weeks. While precious metals are being hailed as a safe haven during turbulent times on the stock markets, the oil price is reacting to the recent rise in geopolitical risks. However, since oil prices and other energy commodities such as natural gas do not generally react equally well or in the same direction, our new Energy Index offers a good opportunity to spread risk across multiple commodities. In addition, our Precious Metals and Agricultural indices offer similar diversification benefits for these commodity sectors”

The Energy Index is composed of two types of crude oil, West Texas and Brent, as well as heating oil, natural gas, gasoline and diesel. The Agricultural Index consists of a total of 12 commodities, including wheat, corn, soybeans, sugar and coffee. As a rule, the individual commodities are weighted according to their average daily trading value of the nearest six futures contracts. Gold and silver are each weighted at 35% in the Precious Metals index, with platinum and palladium weighted at 15%.

For more information on the commodity indices, please visit: https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/markets-commodity-trading/commodity-indices