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Nevertheless you may find through the links mentioned below, international
price information.
The Commodity
Price Bulletin is a monthly publication by UNCTAD which contains
monthly average of prices of copper, London Metal Exchange, Grade A, Cash
and US producer, Wire Bars, f.o.b. refinery.
Futures exchanges prices
http://www.lme.co.uk
The London Metals Exchange site provides up-to-date information on copper
futures and options contracts, and general information about the copper
market.
http://www.shfe.com.cn/english/prod02.html
The Shanghai Futures Exchange provides copper daily and historical prices,
and futures contract specifications.
http://www.nymex.com/
Copper futures are also traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange Apart
from the current price quotes and charts, the site provides some historic
price data.
http://www.shme.com/shme.htm
The Shanghai Metal Exchange (SHME) is a national exchange for non-ferrous
metals futures. This web site has not been up-to-date since 1999. Until
this date, you can find (in excel format) copper daily prices, a comparison
of futures prices between the LME, the SHME and spot prices of the SHME
over several years. This site also contains weekly reports on copper market
trends.
Current price information
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/crb.html
Bloomberg.com provides up-to-date copper futures prices and market news.
www.metalbulletin.com
Metal Bulletin provides to its subscribers twice-weekly reports on a wide
range of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, including current prices.
http://www.nickelalloy.com
You can get the needed information by going to this web site where you
have current data (spot and future quotes from London), but delayed. This
site also provides reports on market's trends.
http://www.alaron.com/quotes.htm
Alaron Trading provides daily copper prices.
http://asiaonemarkets.com/derivatives/lonmetal.shtml
This site provides price quotes of London with a few days of delay.
http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/pinksheets
The World Bank provides (in html and acrobat format) commodity price data.
You can find annual, quarterly, and monthly averages. The pink sheet for
each month contains the data from the previous month.
Country-level prices
http://minerals.usgs.gov
The United States Geological Survey provides (in acrobat format) United
States aluminium average annual prices from 1850 to 1998. The factors
underlying the price developments are also concisely described.
http://finance.indiamart.com
The India Finance and Investment guide provides the physical prices from
several cities in India. These prices are provided on a daily basis.
General price information sources
http://www.reuters.com/products
Reuters delivers news and prices to customer screens. It provides datafeeds
to financial markets and the software tools to analyse data. Transaction
products enable traders to deal in the foreign exchange, futures and options
and securities markets.
http://www.commods.reuters.com
The Reuters web site provides the latest commodity market news, including
on prices.
It gives also a wide range on information relative to commodities.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe
The Financial Express provides news on commodity prices, published by
Reuters.
http://www.info.ft.com
Financial Times associated with Interactive Data provides to its members,
information on the commodity markets, including prices.
Off-line information
Handbook of World Mineral Trade Statistics 1994-1999 published by UNCTAD
contains up-to-date and consistent data at the world, regional and country
levels for the international trade of major non-fuel minerals and metals,
from primary to semi-processed forms. It has been recognized by the industry
as the first comprehensive publication which provides both quantities
and values for these products. Its specialized coverage, focusing on world
trade of minerals and metals, allows for the timely publication of the
most recent data available. http://www.unctad.org/infocomm/handbook
Roskill's Metals Databook 2000 (580 US$) contains a detailed, comprehensive
overview of the production and prices of 32 metals to end 1999: country-by-country
analysis of production; production and ownership data for individual companies;
and long-term price series. For more information: http://www.roskill.co.uk/rmd.html
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