Spot On: What to Know About Commodity Prices Indexes

In the same way that spot prices are useful to farmers for planning, they can be just as useful for investors. Many index providers recognize this and publish asset-class-wide measurements of aggregate spot prices called spot indexes. However, things can get complicated if you don’t understand their subtleties. After unshrouding the mystery around the commodity spot indexes, you can see they have useful benefits for many investors in tracking general commodity price movements.