MarketLens Global Commodity Intelligence
Updated every trading day

Every price that moves your margin, in one place.

MarketLens Global tracks crude oil and petroleum, base metals, gold and silver, scrap and steel, and Pakistan mandi commodities — collected daily from primary exchanges and price reporters, cleaned, dated and made comparable.

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1,000+Commodities tracked
14Primary feeds
3 Years+Of historical price data

For traders, importers & exporters, mills, refiners, brokers and research desks.

1,000+Commodities & grades tracked
14Primary feeds collected daily
290,000+Historical price records
12Currencies normalised

Coverage

The markets we watch, every day

From an OPEC decision in Vienna to the morning rate called in a Lahore mandi — one desk, one dataset, one view of the commodity economy.

Oil & Gas / Energy

Crude benchmarks, refined petroleum products, jet fuel, furnace oil, natural gas and producer official selling prices — plus regulator-notified domestic rates.

  • Crude oil
  • Petroleum
  • Jet A-1
  • Gas
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Metals & Scrap

Exchange-traded base metals, gold and silver, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap, billet, rebar and finished steel across the major regional markets.

  • Gold & silver
  • Copper
  • Scrap
  • Steel
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Agriculture & Mandi

Daily mandi rates for wheat, rice, cotton, pulses, sugar and edible oils, mapped against international grain and softs benchmarks.

  • Wheat
  • Rice
  • Cotton
  • Grain
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Trade Flows & Shipping

Container and vessel tracking, port arrivals and terminal status for Karachi, Port Qasim and international lanes — so you know where your cargo actually is.

  • Import & export
  • Vessels
  • Containers
  • Freight
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Markets & Investment Research

Equity, currency and macro indicators alongside the physical market — the context that explains why the price moved, not just that it did.

  • Stocks
  • FX
  • Macro
  • Indices
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Custom Research

Need a commodity, region or grade we don't list? We build bespoke trackers and historical datasets to your specification.

  • Bespoke datasets
  • Backfills
  • Reports
Tell us what you need →

The platform

A dashboard your team will actually open in the morning

Every source in one interface: browse by market, drill into a single grade, compare trends over months, and take the numbers with you as CSV or Excel.

  • One search across every source. Type "HMS", "Brent" or "basmati" and see every matching series we hold.
  • Three years of history. Price series going back three years, so you can model a season instead of guessing from last week.
  • Exports on demand. CSV and Excel downloads that drop straight into your own pricing model or ERP.
  • Private and access-controlled. Your account, your data, your team — behind a login, not a public page.
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Forward view

How far a price can travel from here

Nobody can tell you what crude will cost in March. What we can tell you — from the commodity's own record — is the range it has been capable of moving through, and how that range widens the further out you plan.

Crude oil — tracked grade Weekly closes · USD / barrel

31 weeks of observed price, followed by a 13-week volatility cone.

60 80 100 120 observed range ahead
Observed weekly close 80% range 95% range
4 weeks out 76.0 – 102.1 80% of comparable moves land inside this band
8 weeks out 71.5 – 108.5 Uncertainty grows with the square root of time
13 weeks out 67.5 – 114.9 A quarter ahead, the useful answer is a range

Built from 31 weeks of this series' own closes. The cone is its measured weekly volatility (about 41% annualised) projected forward — a statement about how much this commodity moves, not a prediction of where it will go. We do not publish price forecasts, and you should be careful with anyone who does.

Why a range beats a number

A single predicted price gives you false confidence and no way to plan. A range tells you what to hedge, what to hold and where your contract terms start to hurt — which is the decision you actually have to make.

We tested this on our own data. A trend model projecting 30 days ahead was wrong by 12.3% on average. Simply assuming tomorrow's price equals today's was wrong by 5.2%. The naive answer beat the clever one by more than two to one, which is what the research has always said about commodity prices.

What this is for

  • Budgeting. Set procurement assumptions against a defensible band, not a guess someone made in a meeting.
  • Contract terms. See how wide a price ceiling has to be before it stops protecting you.
  • Risk sizing. Know which of your commodities are genuinely volatile and which only feel that way.
  • Any tracked series. The same cone is available for every commodity in your account.

How it works

From source to decision, without the copy-paste

Most desks still rebuild the same spreadsheet every morning. We automated that step so your analysts spend their day on the analysis.

Collect

Automated collectors pull from exchanges, price reporters, regulators and mandi boards on a daily schedule.

Clean

Units, currencies, grades and dates are normalised so a tonne always means a tonne and series stay comparable.

Store

Everything lands in a versioned database with full history — nothing is overwritten, so revisions stay auditable.

Deliver

Reach it through the dashboard, scheduled email digests, Excel/CSV exports or a direct data feed into your systems.

How teams use it

Two desks, one problem: the number arrives too late

These are the situations we built for. If either reads like your week, the demo will be short and useful.

Scenario · Grain & oilseeds exporter

No blind spots from the origin silo to the destination port

"Ocean freight lived in a WhatsApp group. Broker updates arrived by voice note. Nobody could tell me on a Monday where a cargo actually was."

The problem as it is usually described to us on a first call.

An agricultural exporter's margin is decided twice: once when the contract is priced against the mandi and the international benchmark, and again when the vessel either arrives on time or racks up demurrage at discharge. Those two decisions normally live in two different systems, run by two different teams.

On one screen, the trade execution desk sees the price series the contract was written against, the vessel carrying the cargo, and the document status — so follow-up calls stop being the way anyone finds anything out.

See agriculture coverage →
  • 01
    Price the contractMandi rate and international benchmark, same view, same day.
  • 02
    Book the cargoContract terms recorded against the price series they were struck on.
  • 03
    Track the vesselPosition, voyage and ETA followed from load port to discharge.
  • 04
    Clear the documentsBill of lading and terminal status visible before the ship is alongside.

Scenario · Bulk ore & metals shipper

Seeing port congestion before the cargo sails

"In bulk trading a two-day wait at the berth can take the whole margin. We were finding out about congestion after the vessel had already left."

The problem as it is usually described to us on a first call.

Moving tens of thousands of tonnes of ore across continents means holding vessel charters, assay results, port agents and a moving scrap or base-metal price in your head at the same time. Most desks manage it on rumour and relationships, which works until the week it doesn't.

With the price history and the shipment status in one platform, a supply chain lead can act on the congestion signal while the cargo is still loading — which is the only point at which acting on it is still cheap.

See trade-flow coverage →
  • 01
    Watch the input priceScrap, ore and base-metal series tracked daily against your sale price.
  • 02
    Charter with contextFreight and commodity cost read together as one landed number.
  • 03
    Monitor the laneVessel movements and terminal status on the route you are actually sailing.
  • 04
    Act before berthDelays surface while there is still a decision left to make.
Zero Manual look-ups before the morning meeting Collection runs overnight, so the price sheet exists before your team logs in.
One Screen for price, history and cargo Instead of a dozen browser tabs, a PDF notification and a WhatsApp group.
100% Of figures carry origin and date Every number can be traced and defended when a client or auditor asks.

Where the numbers come from

Fourteen primary feeds, one clean dataset

We collect from the institutions that set and publish prices — not from second-hand aggregators of aggregators. Every figure carries its origin and collection date inside the platform, so an internal audit can always be answered.

01

International metal exchanges

Official settlement and cash pricing for base metals, taken from the exchanges the physical market contracts against.

02

Energy price reporting agencies

Crude benchmarks, refined product assessments and jet fuel pricing across the trading regions that matter to importers.

03

National producers & regulators

Official selling prices from major producers and notified domestic rates from energy regulators, captured on publication.

04

Scrap & recycling reporters

Grade-level ferrous and non-ferrous scrap assessments across the major importing and exporting regions.

05

Asian domestic commodity indices

Domestic pricing from the region's largest manufacturing economy — the competitive context behind most import decisions.

06

Regional wholesale & mandi boards

Daily called rates from the physical wholesale markets where agricultural commodities actually change hands.

07

Financial & macroeconomic providers

Equity, currency and macro indicators that explain why a commodity moved, not merely that it did.

08

Carriers, terminals & AIS networks

Vessel positions, voyage data and terminal status feeding the container and shipment tracking side of the platform.

Need a feed we don't run yet?

If a grade, region or exchange decides your margin, we build a dedicated collector for it — historical backfill included where the source allows.

Talk to us about coverage →

Straight answer

What we are, and what we are not

Commodity data is a crowded category with a lot of vague claims in it. Here is where we sit, so you can rule us in or out quickly.

What we are

  • A dated, attributed record of what the market actually published, kept intact over years.
  • Built around one region's real trading needs first — local rate, international benchmark and arriving cargo, together.
  • Extensible: if the grade that decides your margin isn't covered, we build a collector for it.
  • Delivered your way — dashboard, digest, file drop or a feed into your own systems.

What we are not

  • A forecasting oracle. We show you what happened and what it is doing now; the call is still yours.
  • A broker. We take no position in your trade and earn nothing from which way it goes.
  • A news site. If a series has a gap, we show the gap rather than filling it with a guess.
  • A public price board. Client data, watchlists and shipments stay private and are never resold.

Who we work with

Built for the people who buy, sell and ship it

Traders & brokers

Quote with confidence and defend your spread with a dated, sourced price history.

Importers & exporters

Time your purchases, benchmark landed cost and watch the vessel carrying your cargo.

Mills, refiners & foundries

Track raw-material and scrap input costs against the finished product you sell.

Analysts & institutions

Research-grade series for economic research, forecasting and investment committees.

Questions

Frequently asked

How often is the data updated?

Collection runs every trading day. Exchange-settled prices land after the relevant session closes; mandi and regulator-notified rates follow their own publication schedule, and each record is stamped with the date it applies to.

Can I get the data into my own systems?

Yes. Alongside the dashboard we deliver CSV and Excel exports, scheduled file drops and direct database or API feeds so the numbers flow into your ERP, pricing model or BI tool without manual entry.

Do you cover commodities that aren't listed here?

Frequently. If a grade, region or exchange matters to your business and we don't already track it, we can add a dedicated collector for it — including historical backfills where the source allows.

Is the platform public?

No. The dashboard sits behind a login and is provisioned per client. This site is our public shopfront; the data itself is delivered privately to your team.

How do I see it for myself?

Request a demo and we'll walk you through the live platform with the markets that matter to you, using your own commodities as the example.

See your market, on your numbers

Book a 30-minute walkthrough. Tell us the commodities you trade and we'll show you exactly what we hold on them — history, sources and all.

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