Who is this for?

This documentation is intended for users who want to analyze Fastmarkets data without heavy development work. Power BI makes it easy to analyze Fastmarkets prices, market data, and news without building custom applications or complex integrations. Using Fastmarkets APIs, analysts can bring licensed data directly into Power BI to explore trends, create dashboards, and share insights across the business.

Unlike traditional system integrations, Power BI focuses on analysis and visualization, allowing you to work with Fastmarkets data using familiar tools and minimal development effort.

What Problems Power BI Can Solve with Fastmarkets Data?

With Power BI, Fastmarkets API data can be used to:

• Analyze historical and latest prices over time
• Compare instruments, commodities, or markets
• Track market movements and changes
• Add news context to price and market analysis
• Distribute insights through interactive dashboards and reports

Power BI is well suited for decision support, reporting, and monitoring, rather than real‑time trading or high‑frequency data processing.

Typical outcomes

Users commonly build:

• Price trend and market overview dashboards
• Historical price analysis reports
• Market comparison views across instruments
• News monitoring dashboards filtered by commodity or location
• Combined reports that link price movements with relevant news

These reports can be refreshed regularly and shared securely with stakeholders.

Supported APIs

Physical Prices API
Marked Data API
News API

Power BI allows you to connect to Fastmarkets APIs using built‑in connectors and Power Query, making it possible to build dashboards quickly using familiar workflows.