Copper, zinc will be hardest hit by index reweighting in Jan.

Dec 07, 2009 | 11:52 AM |

Copper and zinc will be the hardest hit by the reweighting of index funds in January after their meteoric price rise this year.

Of the base metals in the DJ-UBS Commodity Index, copper traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange will see the biggest change, with its weight falling to 7.6 percent from 11.1 percent, JP Morgan & Co. analysts said. The large change....





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