Index roundup: Trends in the commodities market boost leveraged and inverse indices

S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI) managing director, product management, Jodie Gunzberg has highlighted in a research update that the trends in the commodities market is boosting leveraged and inverse indices. The most popular commodities used in 2x leveraged and inverse indices for products are Brent crude, copper, corn, WTI crude oil, gold, natural gas, silver, and soybeans, all of which have trended nearly 50% of the time in the past decade, Gunzberg said. Given that corn trended the most an