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PowerShares DB G10 Currency Harvest Fund
 
Description
The PowerShares DB G10 Currency Harvest Fund (Symbol: DBV) (the "Fund") is based on the Deutsche Bank G10 Currency Future Harvest Index - Excess Return™ (the "Index") and is managed by DB Commodity Services LLC (the "Managing Owner"). The Index is a rules-based index composed, at any one time, of long futures contracts on the three G10 currencies associated with the highest interest rates and short futures contracts on the three G10 Currencies associated with the lowest interest rates.

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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As of December 31, 2008 - Index History (%)1

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

Currencies and futures generally are volatile and may not be suitable for all investors. Investment in foreign exchange related products is subject to many factors which contribute to or increase volatility, such as national debt levels and trade deficits, changes in domestic and foreign interest rates, and investors’ expectations concerning interest rates, currency exchange rates and global or regional political, economic or financial events and situations. 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, asamended, 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.

1 Underlying Index history is hypothetical and does not represent Fund returns. Hypothetical or simulated performance results have certain inherent limitations. Unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading. Also, since the trades have not actually been executed, the results may have under or overcompensated for the impact, if any, of certain market factors, such as lack of liquidity. Simulated trading programs in general are also subject to the fact that they are designed with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown above.

The Index Base Date is March 12, 1993. The Fund seeks to track the Deutsche Bank G10 Currency Future Harvest Index- Excess Return™ (Symbol: DBCFHX). Results for the Deutsche Bank G10 Currency Future Harvest Index- Total Return™ (Symbol: DBHVFTR), which consists of the Index plus 3-month United States Treasury securities returns, are displayed because the Fund collateralizes futures positions with 3-month United States Treasury securities. Please see the prospectus for a full description of how the Fund invests and the master-feeder structure of the Fund and for a complete list of risks associated with an investment in the Fund.

2 Fund and Index performance since inception are based on the Fund’s exchange listing date of September 18, 2006. The S&P 500 and U.S. Treasury Bills since inception of the Fund are calculated as of the same date. All other index history is based on the available historical performance of such index.

The S&P 500 Index is an unmanaged index considered representative of the U.S. stock market. U.S. Treasury bills are debt obligations of the U.S. government and backed by its full faith and credit, having a maturity of one year or less. You cannot invest directly in an index.

DBV Financial Details
Ticker: DBV
Last Update02-Jul-2009
04:15 PM
Price19.90
DB G10 Currency Harvest Level*228.66
Indicative Intra-day
NAV**
21.16
Last end of day
NAV***
21.16
Last date for end
of day NAV
02-Jul-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 DBVNAV
About the Fund's Index
The Deutsche Bank G10 Currency Harvest IndexTM is, at any one time, composed of long futures contracts on the three G10 currencies associated with the highest interest rates and short futures contracts on the three G10 Currencies associated with the lowest interest rates. If the United States Dollar is one of the six currencies associated with the highest or lowest interest rates, the Fund will not establish a long or short futures position in USD because USD is the Fund's home currency and, consequently, the Fund cannot enjoy profit or suffer loss from long or short futures positions in USD. The Index re-evaluates interest rates quarterly and, based on the evaluation, re-weights the futures contracts it holds. Immediately after each re-weighting, the Index will reflect an investment on a 2:1 leveraged basis in the three long futures contracts and in the three short futures contracts (unless USD is one of the six currencies associated with the highest or lowest interest rates, in which case the Index will reflect an investment on a 1.66:1 leveraged basis). By entering into long and short positions, the Index is expected to provide more consistent and less volatile returns than could be obtained by taking long positions only or short positions only.

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