Commodities Data

Commodities Data

An overview of Commodities Data

Our commodities data allows you to grasp where the market is, where it has been, and – ultimately – where it is likely to go next. From exchange data and OTC prices** to specialist supply and demand fundamentals covering agriculture, energy, and metals – along with exclusive research and forecasts, weather, and commodity trade flows – we give you the confidence to act quickly and profitably.

Commodity markets covered includes global pricing and fundamentals for Oil, Refined Products, Petrochemicals, Transport, Power, Gas, LNG, Coal, Carbon, Agriculture, Metals and Weather.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    Global
    Asia
    Europe
    Americas
  • History
    History varies, some going back to 1900.
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    HTML
    JSON
    PCAP
    Parquet
    Python
    SQL
    String Format
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Cloud
    Deployed/Onsite Servers
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    RSS Feed
    SFTP
    SQL
    Website
  • Data frequency
    Continuous
    Daily
    Weekly
    Biweekly
    Monthly
    Quarterly
    Semiannual
    Annual

Features & Benefits

What you get with Commodities Data

  • Commodity exchanges from around the world, with historical data back to the launch date of each product (ICE, CME Group, EEX, TOCOM, SHFE, LME, etc.) – real-time** and delayed.
  • Brokers provide us with trade/order data for EU power, EU gas, coal, freight, as well as assessments on oil, oil products and US power and gas**.
  • Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs) provide us with fee-liable pricing content (S&P Global Platts, Argus Media, ICIS, for example)**.
  • Third-party pricing and news sources from multiple partners (examples are US ISOs, Antaike, Fastmarkets (MB), SMM (Shanghai Metals Markets), SHMET, CuSteel, INTL FC Stone, Jacobsen, Prima Markets, SCB)**.
  • Global Weather from the US and EU weather centres. Forecasts, actuals, analysis**, deep history and insight from our team of meteorologists focusing on key agricultural regions, but also providing relevance to power/gas traders too. Coverage of global tropical weather events, with specific focus on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
  • Price Polls for Oil, Metals, Agriculture and Natural Gas.
  • Infrastructure on Interactive Map enables you to view and analyze production and output, monitor performance and track key impact factors such as weather and freight. This includes global commodity asset details (vessels, refineries, pipelines, power stations, LNG terminals, mines, grain elevators, etc.)
  • Proprietary assessed pricing and analytics data (spot, swaps and fair values)** and proprietary forecasts for pricing and fundamentals that our analyst teams produce. The supply/demand data includes actuals and forecasts for all commodities from our Research teams (including ex-GFMS, ex-Lanworth and exPoint-Carbon)
  • Access to messaging forums which include Global Oil Forum, Global Ags Forum, Ag Global Weather Forum, Global Energy Forum, Global Metals Forum, European Power, Gas and Carbon Forum and NA Nat Gas Forum. These are invitation only news forums and discussion rooms covering key trends and market issues. Reuters News specialists editors moderate the forum and combine the top stories and commentary with real-time discussions and interviews with expert guests.
  • Power your applications with market data feed handlers offering robust performance and comprehensive features or access our cloud data store of full-depth, raw exchange PCAP data.
  • ** Information subject to third-party providers’ terms and conditions is not included in LSEG Data Access unless included as part of a capability in LSEG Data Access. Please consult your account manager.

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