Metals
Comprehensive market intelligence coverage for both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, empowering industry participants and investors to make informed decisions, optimize supply chains, and manage risks in these rapidly evolving markets.
Overview
Whether it’s industry-leading price benchmarks and latest market reporting to navigate trading and support procurement strategies, or to strategically plan for the short to mid-term future needing market outlooks, trends insights, and market fundamentals forecasts, S&P Global Commodity Insights is your metals market intelligence partner. Our coverage helps stakeholders understand ferrous markets supply and demand dynamics that impact steel production and construction globally, plus offering expertise in ferroalloys, providing key insights into the supply chains of steel and alloy producers.
In non-ferrous metals markets, we cover the well-established aluminum market and the emerging battery metals markets, providing critical benchmarks, market data and analytics to support growth opportunities for end-user markets, including industry participants exploring battery and storage manufacturing and low carbon metals. Our services cover a wide range of critical areas, including price discovery, market developments and insights, industry analysis, and market fundamentals coverage, including 5-year forecasts, covering all major metals markets.
Ideal For
Traders
Trade at price levels that are in sync with other market participants with the latest global price assessments. Gain new insights and identify diverse trading patterns, pricing trends, and characteristics by using forward curves analysis. Develop robust pricing and business strategies using daily and historical spot and contract price assessments.
Procurement
Real-time pricing data, market insights, and expert analysis, allowing procurement professionals to monitor market fluctuations and optimize purchase orders by ensuring that they are accurate, timely, and aligned with market conditions, reducing the risk of price volatility and supply disruptions. Additionally evaluate potential suppliers, assess market conditions, and make informed decisions about supplier selection.
Analysts
Simplify and protect your data analysis and modeling processes by using our metals market data to inform your proprietary financial models.
Risk Managers
Write contracts and negotiate transactions by understanding price drivers and fluctuation. Minimize exposure to risk by monitoring historical trends and identifying future trading patterns.
Coverage Areas
Our metals solutions offer global market coverage, with our offerings split between ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Subscription services are available in three packages per metals type, including Market Insights and Market Data packages.
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Solutions We Offer
Market Data
Understand the market conditions through the numbers. Wherever your focus is within the energy and commodities markets, our daily Platts price assessments, data, and tools help you act with confidence today, so you're ready to make an impact tomorrow.
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Find Opportunities
Be ready for anything
Trading and investment opportunities are everywhere. But to see them, you need an up-to-date view of the market. We're an independent provider of proprietary price assessments, with data delivered the way you need it so you can act quickly and make more informed decisions in today's physicals and futures markets.
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Essential Benefits
Your go-to source for essential market data for confident business decisions
- Consistent engagement across the market
- Machine and experts for more relatable insights
- Independent and proprietary data
- Methodologies that reflect their markets
- Compliant assessments for total peace of mind
- Transparent and detailed methodologies
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What We Offer
Expert insight
Our experts are incredibly passionate about what they do, and it shows in the quality of the insight we provide you. That's why it's used by key energy players, governments, and financial institutions around the world.
Numbers without nonsense
S&P Global Commodity Insights give you up-to-date prices for the energy and commodities markets to use to your best advantage. The extensive historical data allows you to make your own analysis and determine the trading and investment strategy that’s right for you.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
Market Insights
Stay ahead with, insights and analysis for the commodity markets. Examining global influences on commodity prices. Granular shifts in local supply and demand. Our essential range of tools can help you see it all. Because with effective market analysis, you can cover more ground and get broader, integrated view of the markets.
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Integrated Intelligence
Stay ahead with interconnected intelligence
Energy and commodity markets don't work in isolation. And neither do our analytics. At S&P Global Commodity Insights, we use a data-driven, bottom-up methodology to build an integrated offering.
Our analytics spans real-time, near-term, short- and long-term outlooks. This gives you a complete picture of market movements across the supply chain so you can understand how they interact and confidently navigate to the future. -
Stay Ahead
See what's coming next
We provide and integrated, global perspective, setting us apart from others. Our market solutions, forecast and analytics give you a more complete view of the markets so you can cover more ground and look ahead to see what's coming next for your business.
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What We Offer
Integrated analysis
Detailed coverage across the value chain for every major global commodity so you can get deep understanding of the interconnected nature of complex markets.
Innovative solutions
Dynamic analytical tools, like Platts Connect, and integrated datasets lets you access innovations that will help put you at the forefront of trend analysis.
Cutting-edge technologies
Access continually expanding, unique and advanced data collected from satellites so you can keep pace with the evolving commodity landscape.
Local expertise on a global scale
Our team of analysts are located around the globe assuring they are well-connected to regional markets and market participants. And you can benefit from this world of insight.
Your data delivered your way
With flexible data delivery options, you can access our content on the platform of your choosing via FTP, API, PEA, Energy Studio: Impact, or Platts Connect.
Channel Partners & Delivery Ecosystem
Get the breadth and depth of market data, insights and risk from S&P Global Commodity Insights delivered when and how you need it.
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