Database Name:DRI Commodities
Acronym:DRICOM; DRI/WEFA
Producer:IHS Global Insight
Type of Information:Numeric; Time-series
Group(s):BUSINESS & ECONOMY, METALS/ALLOYS/COMPOUNDS
Database Description:Contains daily time series of price and trading data for major commodities traded on markets in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Singapore. Includes opening, high, low and closing prices and options on futures, volume, open interest, and spot (cash) prices for most US and Canadian futures, nearby series for major futures, volume, high, low andclosing prices for London futures, and yields on financial nearbys.
Covers the following categories of commodities: financial instruments, food and feed grains, livestock and meat products, fibers and wood, metals, and energy.
Information Sources:Data compiled from the following commodity exchanges: Baltic International Freight Futures Market; Belgium Futures and Options Exchange; Chicago Board of Trade; Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Coffe, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange; Hong Kong Futures Exchange; International Monetary Market; International Petroleum Exchange; Kansas City Board of Trade; London International Financial Futures Exchange; London Metals Exchange; Minneapolis Grain Exchange; New York Commodities Exchange; New York Cotton Exchange; New York Futures Exchange; New York Mercantile Exchange; Paris Matif Exchange; Singapore International Monetary Exchange; Spanish Commodities Exchange; Swiss Futures and Options Exchange; Winnipeg Commodities Exchange. Other sources include Journal of Commerce and the US Department of Agriculture.
Time Span:Since 1960
Numer of Records:More than 490,000
Language:English
Updating Frequency:Daily
Distributors:FactSet (online)
IHS Global Insight (online)
RIMES Technologies (online)
Sungard (online, through the databank FAME)