Bloomberg Commodity Prices and Bloomberg Commodity Futures Prices - Barchart.com (2024)

TheAll Futurespage lists all open contracts for the commodity you've selected. Intraday futures prices are delayed 10 minutes, per exchange rules, and are listed in CST. Overnight (Globex) prices are shown on the page through to 7pm CT, after which time it will list only trading activity for the next day. Once the markets have closed, the Last Price will show an 's' after the price, indicating the price has settled for the day. Thepage will always show prices from the latest session of the market.

End-of-Dayprices are updated at 8pm CST each evening, and includes theprevious sessionvolume and open interest information.

TheCash Contractis listed as the first contract at the top of the page.

Data Updates

For pages showing Intraday views, we use the current session's data with new price data appear on the page as indicated by a "flash". Stocks: 15 minute delay (Cboe BZX data for U.S. equities is real-time), ET. Volume reflects consolidated markets. Futures and Forex: 10 or 15 minute delay, CT.

The list of symbols included on the page is updated every 10 minutes throughout the trading day. However, new stocks are not automatically added to or re-ranked on the page until the site performs its 10-minute update.

For reference, we include the date and timestamp of when the list was last updated at the top right of the page.

Page Sort

Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.

Views

Most data tables can be analyzed using "Views." A View simply presents the symbols on the page with a different set of columns. Site members can also display the page using Custom Views.

Each View has a "Links" column on the far right to access a symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Options Quotes (when available), Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. Standard Views found throughout the site include:

  • Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, Percent Change, High, Low, Volume, and Time of Last Trade.
  • Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 20-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Historic Volatility, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High and 52-Week Low.
  • Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, YTD Percent Change, 1-Month, 3-Month and 1-Year Percent Change.
  • Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income, Beta, Annual Dividend, and Dividend Yield.
    Note
    : For all markets except U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page.
  • Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
  • Pre-Post Market Data: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.
View Symbol More Data (+)

Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.

Horizontal Scroll on Wide Tables

Especially when using a custom view, you may find that the number of columns chosen exceeds the available space to show all the data. In this case, the table must be horizontally scrolled (left to right) to view all of the information. To do this, you can either scroll to the bottom of the table and use the table's scrollbar, or you can scroll the table using your browser's built-in scroll:

  • Left-click with your mouse anywhere on the table.
  • Use your keyboard's left and right arrows to scroll the table.
  • Repeat this anywhere as you move through the table to enable horizontal scrolling.
Flipcharts

Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. While viewing Flipcharts, you can apply a custom chart template, further customizing the way you can analyze the symbols. Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members.

Note: Flipcharts, unlike the full-page chart or Dashboard, does not stream updated data to the chart.

Download

Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 1000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.

Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 250 .csv files per day.

Note: Due to licensing restrictions, Canadian fundamental data cannot be downloaded from Barchart.com. You will see "N/L" in a downloaded column when this is the case.

Should you require more than 250 downloads per day, please contact Barchart Sales at 866-333-7587 or email solutions@barchart.com for more information or additional options about historical market data.

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FAQs

What are commodity prices today? ›

Commodity Prices
EnergyPrice%
Coal104.00-11.49%
RBOB Gasoline2.770.27%
Uranium87.251.15%
Oil (Brent)88.87-0.51%
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What are examples of commodities? ›

What are Commodities? Commodities are raw materials used to create the products consumers buy, from food to furniture to gasoline or petrol. Commodities include agricultural products such as wheat and cattle, energy products such as oil and natural gas, and metals such as gold, silver and aluminum.

What is the futures market for commodities? ›

Commodity futures are derivative contracts in which the purchaser agrees to buy or sell a specific quantity of a physical commodity at a specified price on a particular date in the future. Derivatives are investments that derive their value from the price of another asset, typically called the underlying asset.

What are the major commodity indices? ›

The major commodity indexes are the S&P GSCI Index, the Bloomberg Commodity Index, and the DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index. These are just three of the many commodity indexes available to investors.

What is happening with commodity prices? ›

Global commodity prices are expected to soften this year and next but remain considerably above prepandemic levels, making it harder for central banks to lower inflation and loosen monetary policy, the World Bank said.

Are commodity prices going up or down? ›

Between mid-2022 and mid-2023, global commodity prices plummeted by nearly 40%. This helped to drive most of the roughly 2-percentage-point reduction in global inflation between 2022 and 2023. Since mid-2023, however, the World Bank's index of commodity prices has remained essentially unchanged.

Do commodities do well in a recession? ›

What happens to commodities in a recession? As a general rule, when economies slow, industrial outputs decline due to fewer infrastructure projects and house building, causing the demand for commodities to fall and prices to decline.

What is the most consumed commodity in the world? ›

What About Crude Oil? Crude oil is by far the biggest commodity market, and oil prices were the talk of the town for much of 2022.

What is the most common commodity? ›

Top 10 Commodities
  • Crude oil.
  • Coffee.
  • Natural gas.
  • Gold.
  • Wheat.
  • Cotton.
  • Corn.
  • Sugar.

What is the difference between commodity and commodity futures? ›

Futures are a type of financial derivative in which you agree to buy or sell a certain asset at a certain price at a particular time in the future. Commodities are a type of asset representing fungible goods, such as oil, iron ore, or wheat. Commodities are usually traded using futures.

How do futures affect commodity prices? ›

In contrast, the futures price is delineated in a futures contract—an agreement between two parties to buy/sell the commodity at a predetermined price on a delivery date in the future. Supply and demand play a big role in the spot price of commodities. The spot price in turn acts as the basis for the futures price.

How to read commodity prices? ›

In the case of a daily chart, the top of the line would be the day's high traded price, the bottom corresponds with the day's low price, and the tick on the right side of the line is the closing price. On some charts, there is also a tick on the left side of each vertical line denoting the opening price for the period.

What is the number 1 traded commodity? ›

The most traded commodity is crude oil. Crude oil is used in many products, from petrochemicals to petroleum to lubricants to diesel.

What is the most powerful commodity? ›

Crude oil ranks as one of the most traded commodities in the world. Commodity traders who had taken long positions on crude oil last year made a lot of money. Crude oil prices decreased in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 and the consequent global lockdowns. However, the rate of immunisations increased in 2021.

What are the top 3 commodities to invest? ›

Three of the most commonly traded commodities include oil, gold, and base metals.

What is the price of a bushel of corn right now? ›

US Corn Farm Price Received is at a current level of 4.36, down from 4.74 last month and down from 6.80 one year ago. This is a change of -8.02% from last month and -35.88% from one year ago. The US Corn Farm Price measures the price of 1 bushel of corn in US Dollars.

What's the price of corn and soybeans today? ›

My Grain Bids
CommodityLastOpen
Corn440s-0441-0
Soybeans1159-4s1162-2
Wheat603-2s602-0
Cotton0.809s0.809
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What is the current cash price for corn? ›

Cash Grain Bids
commoditypricebasis
Corn$4.44-7.00
Soybeans$11.24-57.00

What is the rise in the price of a commodity? ›

Inflation refers to the rise in the prices of most goods and services of daily or common use, such as food, clothing, housing, recreation, transport, consumer staples, etc. Inflation measures the average price change in a basket of commodities and services over time.

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