Commodities

General Resources

• Bloomberg Professional - Interactive, financial information. Live and historical market data, news, analytics and reports. In-library use only.
• Datastream - Financial and statistical data - International. In-library use only.
• Unctad Stat -- Commodities
• Scotiabank Commodity Price Index
• BMO Nesbitt Burns Commodity Pricing Reports
• World Bank Global Commodity Report
• Yahoo Finance - Enter a commodity in the "Search quote" box (top left) to find pricing of companies related to a particular commodity.
• NASDAQ Commodities

Agricultural Products Prices

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Quotes
• FAOStat Historical crop prices by country - Select PriceSTAT or Price Archive (top left) to see historical crop prices by country.
• United States Department of Agriculture reports by commodity

Chemical Prices

• ICIS Chemical Business journal - Search for the chemical name and "chemical profile" or "pricing" to find articles and reports with this information.

Construction Material Prices

• ENR (Engineering News Record) journal - Search for "Construction Economics" for a regular column on the construction industry & pricing in the U.S. or search for a material and word "pricing" for relevant articles.
• Means Building Construction Cost Data -Contains estimated unit prices for a variety of contruction materials.

Energy Prices

• TSX Energy sector profile
• NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) - Select from "Energy products" on the left side.
• Fuel Focus from Natural Resources Canada- current and historical fuel and crude oil prices.

Forest Products Prices

• PIX Paper Benchmark Indexes - Prices for pulp and paper

Metals and Minerals Prices

• TSX Mining sector profile
• NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) - Select from "Metals products" on the left side.
• Kitco.com - Prices for precious metals and base metals
• Canadian Minerals Yearbook
• Mineral Commodity Summaries, US Geological Survey

Plastic Prices

• Plastics Technology Journal - Search this journal for articles on pricing of plastics.