Commodities Solutions
Powerful end-to-end support for your workflow
As the commodities landscape evolves, markets are becoming more volatile with greater financial constraints and tighter regulations. Bloomberg’s enterprise solutions deliver powerful end-to-end support for the commodities workflow—from price discovery to the impact of sustainable investing. Gain a perspective on Earth’s resources by tapping into the planet’s most advanced financial data and analytics solution.
Research, analysis & monitoring
Get the comprehensive data, insights and real-time updates your firm needs.
Investment & trading decision-making support
Access a complete pricing library for ideation, decision-making and market navigation.
Trading &execution management
Seamlessly integrate pre-trade and trading workflows for lower operational and compliance risk.
Everything you need. All in one place.
Research, analysis and monitoring
Clear perspectives on global commodities and the carbon transition through research on subjects such as demand-supply fundamentals, pricing trends and disruptive energy sources.
Proprietary company and industry investment analysis from team of 350 research professionals driven by 500+ data contributors across asset classes plus ESG, policy and litigation.
Connected workflows across Bloomberg Terminal, Microsoft Office & mobile devices enable stakeholders to create/consume/collaborate, while meeting regulatory/compliance reqs.
Real-time news & social media alerts from thousands of sources. Create custom news feeds with instant audio and visual notifications.
Integrate your firm’s proprietary data onto the Bloomberg Terminal with customizable permissioning and utilize Bloomberg’s charting and mobile tools, all at no additional cost.
Investment & trading decision-making support
Provides comprehensive coverage of spot & forward pricing across all commodity markets. Supports intuitive search through the wide range of price data to identify prices of interest and charting analytics.
Offers forward curves updated throughout the day reflecting the most recent market prices. Use the fair values to create spreads with consistent time-aligned legs and provide price transparency along the full-term structure of each curve.
Tools to assess profitability of commodity transformation process. Evaluate the economic fundamentals driving the markets & the margins available to processing assets.
Monitor, structure and price commodity options and strategies ranging from vanilla to complex. Use real-time implied volatility surfaces , employing proprietary BVOL filtering, smoothing, interpolation and extrapolation methodology.
Provides a variety of proprietary and third-party ESG scores that investors can use to evaluate disclosure and performance and assess company activities relative to industry peers.
Trading, execution & compliance
Execute trades and automatically integrate details into order management, risk management & back-office systems. Netting, staging, pre-trade and post-trade allocations features help you make the right, trading, hedging & investment decisions. Simultaneously manage FX risk on the same platform.
An integrated solution for commodity trading from pre-trade market and fundamental analysis down to portfolio risk analysis through trade execution.
Measure the counterparty risk arising from OTC derivative portfolios. For front office trades calculating/hedging, credit department risk managers managing counterparty exposures and finance teams accounting for non-performance of financial instruments in their reporting.
Access a full range of solutions for managing market, credit, and counterparty risk and turn trade data into actionable insights that help you balance effective policy with manageable risk.
Coverage – Physical and Financial
Energy
Oil, refined products, middle distillates, gasoline, petrochemicals, crude, power, renewables, liquefied natural gas (LNG), coal, biofuel
Metals
Base metals, precious metals, minor metals, alloys, minerals
Agriculture
Vegetable products, foodstuff, fertilizer, livestock, seafood, lumber, oleochemicals, weather forecasts
Commodity Derivatives
Options, futures, forwards, swaps, freight, storage, tankers, shipping, emissions