#Commodities under pressure due to #Coronavirus $CRB $GCC

Commodities have been under pressure lately as the Coronavirus situation gives fears of a worldwide slowdown of economies.

A vehicle to play is the Wisdom Tree Continuous Commodity Index Fund ETF, symbol GCC, US$ 17.74. GCC tracks an equal-weighted index of 17 commodities.

It uses futures contracts averaged across the nearest 6 months of the futures curve to maintain its exposure and rebalances daily. Each commodity is weighted around 5.9%. (Attachments 5&6)

Attachment 1 displays the CRB Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index. The index comprises 19 commodities but is heavily weighted in energy with oil being weighted 23%. Together with natural gas and gasoline, the energy sector is weighted way over 30% (attachment 2).

In a very short period of time the CRB Index lost just over 10%. The weekly chart (attachment 3) shows the index arrived at the levels of December 2018 and

August/September 2019.  The long-term Point & Figure chart (attachment 4) reveals the index reached the low of the last few years.

Attachment 5 shows the daily chart and attachment 6

the weekly chart of the GCC. 

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