Commodities: fifty-four cards and who each move squeezes
Fifty-four cards, grouped the way an income statement meets them: forty-nine commodities, then five currency pairs at the end because every price above is a dollar price. Movers across four windows, the names within five percent of a five-year high, and who is squeezed or helped this month.
What it shows
Movers. The biggest moves today, this week, this month and over a year.
Within five percent of a five-year high. Each card that is near its own peak, with the distance, the level and the date of the peak, so nobody has to remember an old high by eye.
The board. Seven groups: Energy, Base metals, Precious, Ags and softs, Industrial inputs, Freight, Currency. Each card has its level, the change over five windows, and the distance from the five-year high. Click a card for the full history and the industries a rise squeezes (it is a cost to them) and helps (it is their revenue).
Names under commodity pressure, this month. Every commodity a listed name sits on, added up: the names squeezed most and the names helped most, with the commodities behind each score and their move. It ships with US names mapped from their own filings; a market file adds the names of another country.
Where each number comes from
| Number | Source |
|---|---|
| Exchange-traded contracts (crude, gold, copper, the grains and so on) | Yahoo's free feed, priced live |
| Benchmarks without a contract (rubber, zinc, urea, freight) | Trading Economics' daily read, with FRED's monthly IMF series for the long chart |
| Currency pairs: level and eight years of history | Frankfurter, the daily reference rates central banks publish, with the free feed for the intraday level |
| The industries each commodity squeezes and helps | The desk's own map, shipped with the desk and yours to edit |
| The names on each industry and their raw-material share | The companies' own filings, mapped in a file that ships with US names |
| India's mandi lines | The Indian Mandi Prices API, reading agmarknet's daily arrivals, five states; the Rubber Board of India's daily sheet |
Nothing on this screen uses a key.
What you can do here
- Your list, top right: add a commodity with its Yahoo symbol, edit or remove one with Undo, starters back in one click.
- Click any card for the full history and its industries.
- Click a name in the pressure panel for its ticker page.
- A commodity move past the alert rules lands on the alerts bar at the bottom of every screen.
The home market's own lines
With India as the home market, six cards carry an Indian line under the global price with no key: the benchmark mandi for wheat, soybean, maize, kapas and gur (Indore, Indore, Davangere, Raichur, Muzaffarnagar), each the market's latest modal price in rupees per quintal with the day's move, and Kottayam RSS4 from the Rubber Board under Natural rubber. India has the detail. A market file adds its own lines and its listed names through the written contract.