S&P Global Commodity Insights Launches New Price-Assessment-Based Indices Reflecting Commodity Sector Value Trends

Indices Reflect Global Transportation Fuels, Conventional Energy, Industrial Materials, Decarbonization and Recycled Packaging

HOUSTON and NEW YORK and SINGAPORE, Dec. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, the leading independent provider of information, analytics and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, today announced the expansion of its commodity price assessment portfolio to feature commodity sector indices. These indices reflect compilations of spot physical prices from the oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), carbon, metals, chemicals and biofuels markets, and provide additional big-picture value trends related to global commodity markets.

Annette Hugh, Global Head of Market Development and Engagement, S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: "Our five new global indices provide an at-a-glance, macro view of physical market pricing trends in key global commodity sectors. Platts' world-renowned commodity price benchmarks underpin these indices, which provide a first-of-a-kind trend price reference for critical global markets based on spot market values."

The new Platts global commodity indices (with URL link to price) include:   

• Platts Global Transportation Fuels Index: The daily index features key Platts transportation fuels price assessments across road, air, sea and rail, providing a macro view of physical pricing cost trends in the global transportation market.
• Platts Conventional Energy Index: The daily index is underpinned by core price benchmarks in the conventional energy space, including crude oil, gas, LNG, coal and nuclear, providing global energy suppliers and consumers with a macro indicator of the trend of conventional energy fuels. 
• Platts Industrial Materials Index: The daily index provides a global, macro pricing trend of key raw materials used in industrial production processes, including iron ore, coking coal, plastics, rubber and aluminum.
• Platts Decarbonization Index: The daily index represents the theoretical cost to offset carbon emissions using a basket of increasingly sought-after segments of the voluntary carbon market, such as nature-based avoidance, household devices and technology carbon capture credits. 
• Platts Global Recycled Packaging Index: The daily index provides the consumer packaging/fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors with a global indicator for key recycled materials, including used beverage cans, recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used in plastic bottles, and recycled polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) used in food packaging and manufacturing processing, respectively. 

The Platts global commodity indices show how related market segments are performing. More than 380 companies have already interacted with these indices since the exploratory beta-testing launch in recent months, with heightened interest coming from the global transportation sector. The Platts Global Transportation Fuels Index is down 9.5% in value year to date through October, reflecting a steady decline in inflationary pressure stemming from the cost of fuel prices. The index is particularly relevant, as transportation fuel cost is a key component of most governments' macroeconomic inflation data and there is much attention on the escalation in geopolitical tensions along key seaborne transport routes this year, as well as continued rapid electrification of the global vehicle fleet. 

Vera Blei, Head of Market Reporting and Trading Solutions, S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: "Platts' robust physical price assessments serve as the key ingredient for these indices which we believe observers of global commodity markets will increasingly reference in tandem with Platts physical spot assessments as a means of comparing the broader market versus a specific physical commodity benchmark." 

For greater detail on the methodology behind these indices, access: Global Commodity Indices Specification Guide.

The suite of Platts global commodity indices are available via the products and services of S&P Global Commodity Insights, including such as  Platts Connect and Commodity Insights Live.

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