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A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price

The accompanying table contains a summary and statistics for 16 ETFI global equity indexes and two commodity pool fund ideas, with the short/inverse and defensive themes outpacing the overall market averages over the past year in the midst of ongoing market turmoil around the world.

Although currently out of favor with investors, new commodity pool fund ideas include timber and coal. The CoalFund is a commodity pool that is structured to track the performance of exchange-traded, near-month futures contracts

Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the extraction, cleaning, and sale of coal to electric utilities, steel companies, coal brokers, and industrial users primarily in the United States. It offers steam coal to electric power generators and industrial plants; and metallurgical coal that is used to make coke for steel production. The company also purchases and resells coal produced by third parties. Its mining operations span across Northern Appalachia consisting of two underground mines in southwestern Pennsylvania; Central Appalachia comprising seven underg