Exchange data 

Quick view summary

The dashboard provides the ability to view pricing from the London Metal Exchange (LME), CME Group (CME) and Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) in pre-configured widgets.

• LME Official Prices widget
• LME Unofficial Prices widget
• CME Settlement Prices widget
• SHFE Close Prices widget

How to set up an Exchange Pricing widget:

• Click the Add Widget icon
• Select the Pre-configured Widgets tab
• Select one of the Pre-configured widgets
  • LME Official Prices
  • LME Unofficial Prices
  • CME Settlement Prices
  • SHFE Close Prices
• Select Confirm to create the widget.

LME Official Prices and LME Unofficial Prices widgets

The LME Official Prices widget and LME Unofficial Prices widget provide an overview of key exchange pricing for the previous day across Cash, 3 Months, 15 Months and the first three December prompt dates for the following contracts:

• CA – Copper; 
• AH – Aluminium; 
• NI – Nickel; ZS – Zinc; 
• PB – Lead; 
• SN – Tin; 
• AA – Aluminium Alloys; 
• CO – Cobalt; and 
• NA – Nasaac (North American Special Aluminum Alloy Contract)

CME Settlement Prices widget and SHFE Close Prices widget

The CME Settlement Prices widget displays the previous day settlement prices for the first four CME (formerly COMEX) gold, copper and silver futures contracts.

The SHFE Close Prices widget displays the latest closing prices for the first-month SHFE aluminium, copper, nickel, lead, tin and zinc futures contracts.

How to search and add Exchange pricing to existing widgets It is also possible to search and add Exchange pricing for LME, SHFE and CME into your existing widgets to compare with physical pricing. This is available for Single Price Tile, Multi Price Table, Price Chart and Historic Data table widgets.

• Click into the widget actions menu in the top right of the widget and select Edit widget. This will open the search tool. (In the Single Price Tile widget click Clear at the bottom to remove the existing price).
• The quickest way to search is using the source filter. Click into the search box next to the magnifying glass and select the Source filter.
• Next select the exchange code e.g. Source: LME. 
• Narrow your search by typing the commodity in the search box and selecting the filter e.g. Commodity: Copper, you may also wish to enter additional search keywords such as Official or Cash to narrow the search results.
• Click on the + Select button next to your chosen contract in the search results and click Next to add it to the widget.

Please note it is not yet possible to convert currency and/or unit of measure for exchange prices.

Depending on your access you may be entitled to view previous day, delayed or live exchange prices in the Multi Price Table widget. When a price changes in real time, it flashes either green (up tick) or red (down tick) from the previous price update.

View London Metal Exchange (LME) Monthly Averages, Warehouse Stocks and Closing PricesView a selection of pre-configured reports displaying previous day data from the London Metal Exchange (LME) including:

• LME Monthly Averages
• LME Warehouse Stocks
• LME Closing Prices (Evening Evaluations)

To add this data to your workspace:

• Click Add widget > Data Reports and click Confirm.
  Once the widget is populated, to amend the type of report click on the purple Report type – select from LME Warehouse Stocks, LME Monthly Averages or LME Closing Prices.
• The LME Warehouse stocks report provides previous day detailed warehouse and stock reports which include opening and closing stocks, stock movements, cancelled & live warrants across locations and metals. By default, when the report is selected it displays stock totals across all warehouses per metal. Each metal can then be expanded further to display details for each LME warehouse, then again by type of materials.
• The LME Averages report displays the LME Monthly Average Settlement Price (MASP) which is based on LME Official Cash Settlement Prices available in the month. These averages are published daily, totaled and averaged over the number of business days in the month, resetting at the end of each month. Prices are displayed in US dollars per metric tonne. The MASP is the settlement price for Monthly Average Futures and LME Traded Average Price Options (TAPOs) contracts.
• On the LME Closing Prices report, click on the arrow next to each metal to display closing prices for each prompt date in each of the 4 currencies cleared by the LME.
• To view historic report data, click on the date drop down menu and use the arrows to select the last day for the month and year you wish to view.

Fastmarkets Dashboard also contains:

• Spot precious intraday pricing as well as LBMA prices
• Live global FX spot rates and forwards
• Daily ECB rates

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