Inverse Commodities Category Report
Last modified: December 11, 2009
The Inverse Commodity ETFdb Category contains 7 ETFs with a total market capitalization of approximately $80.9 million (as of December 11, 2009).
The following are the three largest ETFs in this ETFdb Category by market capitalization (as of December 11, 2009):
| Ticker | ETF | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|
| SZO | PowerShares DB Crude Oil Short ETN | $21.1 million |
| DGZ | PowerShares DB Gold Short ETN | $19.7 million |
| DNO | United States Short Oil Fund | $14.6 million |
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The Inverse Commodities ETFdb Category includes funds that offer inverse exposure to prices of various commodities (i.e., the prices of these funds rises as the prices of the related commodities fall). Many of the ETFs in this ETFdb Category are actually exchange-traded notes (ETNs), which are essentially debt instruments that promise to pay a return equal to the return on the underlying index. While ETNs reduce tracking error, they introduce counterparty risk.
ETFs in this ETFdb Category include diversified commodity funds (DDP), as well as funds offering inverse exposure to specific commodities, including:
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