Baltic Exchange

Baltic Exchange members are at the heart of world trade, arranging for the ocean transportation of industrial bulk commodities from producer to end user. The bulk freight market relies on the co-operation of shipbrokers, ship owners and charterers to ensure the free flow of trade.

The Baltic Freight Indices, spot and forward freight assessments from the Baltic Exchange are available through LIM and the following are covered:

  Daily Freight Index values for the following cargo types as published by the Baltic Exchange:

• Dry Cargo Index
• Panamax dry cargo Index
• Capesize dry cargo Index
• Handymax dry cargo Index
• Wet Clean Tanker Index
• Wet Dirty Tanker Index

  Various spot and forward assessments for common shipping routes used by these cargo types.

The full list of coverage is available from the spreadsheet: baltic_symbols.xls. For more information, please see the Baltic Exchange website at: www.balticexchange.com. For pricing information please contact a LIM Sales Representative at: sales@lim.com.

CME Weather Futures

CME trades a number of weather based futures and options contracts. These are all based on HDD (heating degree days) and CDD (cooling degree days) values for various locations in the US, Europe and Asia. LIM provides End of Day Settlement values (High, Low, Open, Close, Volume, Open Interest) for these listed locations (US cities futures only). For more information, please see the CME website. To obtain this optional data set, please contact a LIM Sales Representative at: sales@lim.com.

CustomWeather

CustomWeather supplies clean, accurate, up-to-date daily historical climate data for approximately 30,000 locations around the globe - 2800 updated daily, 5000 updated bi-weekly. In addition, CustomWeather provides 30 year daily precipitation values globally.

For more information on the data set, see the document Forecast and Historical Weather Data Available Through LIM. To obtain this data set, please contact a LIM Sales Representative at: sales@lim.com.

Website: www.customweather.com

ICIS-LOR

ICIS-LOR provides pricing information on the petrochemical and oil markets with reports published on more than 120 commodities, with a frequency ranging from four times per day to monthly. The pricing information is gathered by a team of specialist editors and reporters based in London, Houston and Singapore.

The more significant market for ICIS-LOR is in petrochemicals. There are no regulated markets for these commodities in which the prices of transactions are reported. Pricing, therefore, needs to be obtained journalistically by (mainly telephone) conversations with deal participants. Such a process requires highly experienced reporters with long term relationships with the market players. Information needs to be assessed and corroborated in order to identify the meaningful from the misleading.

LIM recently added crudes and chemical price reports to the list of data offerings from ICIS-LOR. For a listing, see the ICIS-LOR vendor page on the LIM website.

ICIS-LOR Website: www.icislor.com.

To obtain this data set, please contact a LIM Sales Representative at: sales@lim.com.