With the CX Commodity Index brand Deutsche Börse AG has launched a new index family based on commodities. With this new index family Deutsche Börse is closing a gap in international commodities indices regarding missing transparency and less comprehensive rules. The CX Commodities indices form a straightforward and liquidity based index family, allowing easy access to the commodities capital markets. The new index family reproduces the global commodities capital markets in a transparent and strictly rules-based quantitative approach. For the first time, a commodities index fully reflects the commodities markets from the perspective of financial investors. The concept is not based on key production figures, but solely on the size and liquidity of commodities contracts worldwide. The index thus forms an ideal basis for passive investment funds, futures, options and certificates.

The CX indices family is calculated in EURO and USD. Alongside the CX composite index are five CX sub-indices for the commodities classes energy, industrial metals, precious metals, agriculturals and livestock. Both the CX composite index as well as its five sub-indices are calculated in three different models: spot return, excess return and total return.