Data - Prices and Indices
Trusted prices powered by unrivalled market knowledge
We provide trusted commodity price benchmarks, backed by our analysts’ deep understanding of market fundamentals and dynamic analysis capabilities. We offer comprehensive commodity prices coverage across various sectors including steel, aluminium, battery materials, base metals, fertilizers and optical fibre supply chains. Additionally, our low emissions premia for steel, aluminium and fertilizers are informed by our extensive emissions analysis.
Our commitment to integrity ensures that CRU commodity prices are underpinned by robust and transparent methodologies. We adhere strictly to IOSCO Principles and relevant NDRC rules for Chinese commodity prices, having conducted independent IOSCO third-party assurance reviews and audits of our data providers. Our US Midwest hot-rolled coil steel price is a benchmark that settles billions of dollars in physical and financial derivative contracts.
Reliable and transparent
CRU commodity prices are enriched by a vast global market intelligence network, encompassing buyers, sellers, traders and other critical market participants. Our price benchmarks serve essential customer use cases, including contract settlement, negotiation support, margin management, market analysis and comprehensive internal and external reporting.
We also provide timely five-year and longer-term forecasts for all key commodity prices, supported by rigorous cost and supply/demand analysis as well as robust forecasting methodologies. Furthermore, our CRU DataLab tool offers advanced data interrogation, visualization and API functionality, enabling effective data management and integration into in-house systems for efficient, data-driven decision-making.
Join us and benefit from our unrivalled market knowledge, ensuring you have the most reliable and transparent commodity price benchmarks available to you.
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Aluminium Prices
CRU provides expert aluminium prices, indices, and market insights, including reports on alumina, bauxite, and decarbonisation technologies.
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Base Metals Prices
We provide comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date price assessments across various base metals, combined with insight into the factors and events affecting copper, lead, nickel and zinc markets.
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Battery Materials Prices
CRU offers accurate price assessments and insights on battery materials, covering market trends and key factors influencing these sectors.
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Ferroalloys Prices
CRU delivers accurate ferroalloys price assessments and market insights, highlighting key factors and events impacting global markets.
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Fertilizer Prices
CRU provides weekly fertilizer price updates, covering urea, nitrates, ammonia, potash, and more, with extensive US and Chinese inland price coverage.
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Steel Prices
Get accurate steel price assessments and insights from CRU, covering metallics, stainless steel, raw materials, steel plate, and hot rolled coil, including The CRU.
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Wire & Cable Prices
CRU provides comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date price assessments and research reports for bare optical fibre across various key regional markets, combined with insights into the factors and events affecting markets
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Global cost and emissions performance analysis for mining, metals, and fertilizer production sites. Benchmark, evaluate, and compare with detailed insights.
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Battery Technology and Cost Model
Discover strategic insights through CRU’s advanced battery cost modelling to optimize battery production, reduce risks, and stay ahead in the dynamic energy market
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Battery Value Chain Service
CRU's Battery Value Chain Service provides independent analysis of the global battery supply chain, enabling informed decisions and strategic planning.
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Copper Smelting and Refining Asset Service
Get expert analysis on copper smelting and refining costs. CRU offers detailed insights help optimise efficiency and profitability in the copper industry.
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Cost Services
Build an accurate view of costs performance for individual assets and projects. Compare producers and regions and analyse cost drivers.
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DataLab and API
CRU DataLab makes it easy to access and analyse commodity data, to get trusted insight, fast.
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Emissions Services
Access emissions performance data for assets and projects to understand the emissions landscape and compare process-level emissions across assets and regions in seconds.
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Energy Storage Technology and Cost Service
Unlock competitive advantage with CRU's Energy Storage Technology and Cost Service. Get comprehensive insights into current and future trends, supply chain dynamics, and disruptive technologies for informed strategic planning and investment decisions.
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Fertilizer Services
CRU offers expert fertilizer market analysis and intelligence. Get comprehensive data, insights and forecasts to guide decision-making across the global fertilizer industry.
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Lithium Asset Service
Unlocking the Lithium Market: Essential Data and Insights for Lithium Producers, Traders, Analysts and Concentrates Buyers
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Low Emissions Hydrogen and Ammonia
Explore CRU’s Low-Emissions Hydrogen and Ammonia Service for data-driven insights and strategic guidance in emerging markets. Download our brochure and stay ahead!
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Power Transition Service
Comprehensive insights on the changing power mix, technology impacts, and strategic opportunities in metals markets.
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Solar Technology and Cost Service
Gain expert insights into solar market trends, costs, and technologies. Optimize investments and stay ahead with detailed analysis of the solar supply chain
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Specialty Phosphate Service
A full view of the high-grade emerging phosphate market. With data rich industry analysis, insight into the growth of the emerging Lithium Iron Phosphate sector, the role of phosphate within LFP, LFMP and the growth and demand for specialty phosphates
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Sustainability and Emissions Service
Explore CRU’s sustainability services offering policy analysis, carbon pricing forecasts, and green technology insights. Optimise carbon reduction and compliance strategies with expert data and consulting
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Prices and Indices
We offer comprehensive commodity prices coverage across various sectors including steel, aluminium, battery materials, base metals, fertilizers and optical . . .
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Supply and Demand
We provide you with crucial consumption, production, capacity, trade, market balance and inventory data across the mining, metals, fertilizer and battery value chains.
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Asset Data: Supply, Costs, Emissions and Valuations
Our detailed insights into costs, production, emissions performance and valuations empower you to make informed decisions and drive your business forward.
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Macroeconomic and End-use Demand and Cost Drivers
International macroeconomic analysis empowering your decision making. CRU’s macroeconomic analysis enables you to make informed choices, mitigate risks, and seize opportunities across the global commodities markets
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Sustainability and Emissions
CRU’s Sustainability Service offers insights on the sustainability value chain, emissions trends, carbon markets and the costs of renewable and alternative energy sources
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DataLab and API
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CRU DataLab makes it easy to access and analyse commodity data, to get trusted insight, fast.
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