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PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
 
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The PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (Symbol: DBC) (the "Fund") is based on the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - Optimum Yield Diversified Excess Return (the "Index" or "DB Commodity Index") and is managed by DB Commodity Services LLC (the "Managing Owner"). The Index is a rules-based index composed of futures contracts on 14 of the most heavily-traded and important physical commodities in the world.

Investors can buy and sell shares in the Fund at market price on the NYSE Arca, Inc. Ordinary brokerage commissions apply. Shares may only be redeemed directly from the Fund by Authorized Participants in blocks consisting of 200,000 shares.

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Index Base Weights as of October 19, 2009 - Fund and Index Data as of September 30, 20093

Source: DB / Bloomberg


PERFORMANCE DATA QUOTED REPRESENTS PAST PERFORMANCE. INVESTMENT RETURNS AND PRINCIPAL VALUE WILL FLUCTUATE AND SHARES OF THE FUND, WHEN REDEEMED, MAY BE WORTH MORE OR LESS THAN THEIR ORIGINAL COST. PAST PERFORMANCE IS NOT INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS.
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS

Commodities and futures generally are volatile and are not suitable for all investors. The Fund will be successful only if significant losses are avoided. Please review the prospectus regarding specific break-even figures for the Fund.

The Fund is speculative and involves a high degree of risk. An investor may lose all or substantially all of an investment in the Fund.

Please see the prospectus for a full description of how the Fund invests and the master-feeder structure of the Fund.

The Fund is not a mutual fund or any other type of Investment Company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder.

Shares in the Fund are not FDIC insured, may lose value and have no bank guarantee.

This material must be accompanied or preceded by a prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.

1Index history has certain inherent limitations and does not represent actual trading performance or returns of the Fund. Index history does not represent trades that have actually been executed and therefore may under or over compensate for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as illiquidity. No representation is being made that the Fund will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to the Index history. For a complete list of risks associated with an investment in the Fund, please see the prospectus.

From Fund inception until May 24, 2006, the Fund followed the non-Optimum Yield version of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index™.

From May 24, 2006 to Oct. 16, 2009, the Fund followed the Optimum Yield version of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index™.

As of Oct. 19, 2009, the Fund follows the Diversified version of the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index™.

All Index history reflects a blend of the performance of the aforemorentioned Indexes ("DB Commodity Index").

2 The Fund's exchange listing date: Feb. 3, 2006. Unless otherwise noted, historical information of all displayed indexes is based on this date.

3The Fund seeks to track the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index — Optimum Yield Diversified Excess Return(Symbol: DBLCIX). Results for the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index — Optimum Yield Diversified Total Return (Symbol: DBLCDBCT), which consists of the Index plus 3-month U.S. Treasury securities returns, are displayed because the Fund collateralizes futures positions with 3-month U.S. Treasury securities. The S&P GSCI Commodity Index — Total ReturnTM (S&P GSCI Commodity) and the Dow Jones — UBS Commodity Index Total Return IndexSM (DJ-UBS Commodity) are unmanaged indexes used as a measurement of change in commodity market conditions based on the performance of a basket of commodities. The S&P 500® Index (S&P 500) is an unmanaged index considered representative of the U.S. stock market. S&P GSCI Commodity Index — Total ReturnTM is a trademark of Standard & Poor’s, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Dow Jones — UBS Commodity Index Total Return IndexSM is a trademark of Dow Jones & Co., Inc. and UBS Securities LLC. You cannot invest directly in an index.

4NAV is a symbol representing estimated fair value based on the most recent intraday price of underlying assets.

5Market returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4 p.m. ET and do not represent the returns an investor would receive if shares were traded at other times

DBC Financial Details
Ticker: DBC
Last Update20-Nov-2009
16:14 PM
Price23.32
DB Commodity Index Level*475.1969
Indicative Intra-day
NAV**
24.2566
Last end of day
NAV***
24.25545
Last date for end
of day NAV
20-Nov-2009
Data Source:   www.nyse.com
(Data delayed 20 minutes)
   *Indicative intra-day and Index closing
   **Indicative intra-day value of the Fund
   ***Last end of day DBCNAV
About the Fund's Index
The Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index - Optimum Yield Diversified Excess ReturnTM (DBLCIX) is composed of futures contracts on fourteen of the most heavily traded and important physical commodities in the world. The Index commodity components were chosen based on the depth and liquidity of their markets and to provide diversified commodity performance.

The Optimum YieldTM version of the Index provides a rules-based formula for replacing an expiring futures contract with a new contract having the highest "implied roll yield". This can minimize the negative effects of rolling futures contracts when a market is in contango (that is, when the next-to-expire contract is trading at a lower price than contracts expiring in later months) and maximize the positive effects of rolling futures contracts when a market is backwardated (that is, when the next-to-expire contract is trading at a higher price than contracts expiring in later months).

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