Commodities Market data Import Export LME steel products

Ahead of the annual LME conference on Monday 19th October, The London Metal Exchange (LME) has stated that “metals [are] the cornerstone of sustainability” in future economic activity.

Commodities Market data Import Export Nickel

During the Tesla Annual Shareholders Meeting and Battery Day last week, Elon Musk announced an ambitious innovation plan focusing on Tesla’s own batteries production and a more...

Commodities Grains Export

Thailand is expected to lose its coveted #2 position in the global trade for rice as the country’s production faced drought and the appreciation of the Thai Baht challenged Thailand...

Commodities Grains Market data Export

In this post, we look into the corn trade and compare it with soybean based on an analysis of historical Shipfix export indicators as well as our Shipfix Forward Order curve which is...

Commodities Market data Import fertilisers

Urea is the most concentrated solid nitrogen fertiliser (46%) and the most commonly used in large scale agriculture. Demand for urea has grown significantly over the last 50 years and...

Commodities Data Market data Community Contribution

Contrary to exchange traded securities, over the counter ("OTC") trading remains decentralised, opaque and generally not very well digitalised.

Commodities Predictive correlations Market data Base metals

In July 2020 Copper prices reached to a two year high following a rally that started in March of the year. This represents an increase of almost 40% and makes copper one of the most...

Commodities US China Import Export

In 2019, China effectively ranked as the 3rd largest importer of US Agricultural products with over $13.8bn worth of trade. In the first quarter of 2020, China imported twice as many...

Orders Commodities Grains Russia Data Predictive correlations Market data

Using Shipfix's global dataset on cargo orders, we prove our ability to predict physical trade flows quantitatively and objectively. In this article, we detail a few practical examples,...