Assets

Due to the wide variety of physical products traded as commodities and the world wide span of this business, it is usual to divide commodities in different assets. The breakdown per asset adopted by Commopedia is detailed below. This breakdown is important, because many pages of this site are detailed per asset.

To understand a market, one should know what usage is made of the different products, what impacts this demand, which suppliers can fulfill this demand and which intermediaries intervene in the supply chain. The relative weight of those multiple stakeholders will negotiate a market price, crossroad at which their often opposing interests find an agreement. This equilibrium point has to be found again every single day. For each of the actively traded assets, in the assets section, we zoom a further in the products, stakeholders and main drivers of the market data.

Commodity data is vast and diverse, spanning multiple industries and sectors. Browse our categorized asset data to find the information you need. Each category provides in-depth insights and seamless integration options to support your business.