providing commodities-based financial and investment services limited to the Bache Commodities Index, namely, using the Bache Commodities Index to promote diversification of investment portfolios; managing futures portfolios based on the Bache Commodities Index; distribution of pricing information based on the Bache Commodities Index via financial market data services; providing investment management, distribution and brokerage of the Bache Commodities Index; developing commodity related derivative products based on the returns and composition of the Bache Commodities Index of individual commodities within each major commodity sector to enable clients to access the commodities markets for investment return or hedging purposes; and providing information concerning the trading of commodity futures based on the Bache Commodities Index via computer and global communication networks

Publishing indices that measure returns on investments in selected commodity futures; publication of information regarding the value of a commodity index enabling benchmarking of returns of commodity investments against the commodity index