Commodity Market Monthly

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1 Commodity Market Monthly Research Department, Commodities Team May 14, IMF Commodity Price Indices (5 = ) Crude Oil Prices ($/barrel) 215 Non-Energy Total Energy Dubai Brent WTI IMF Commodity Price Indices (5 = ) IMF Commodity Price Indices (5 = ) Vegetable Oils & Meal Cereals Beverages Meat Seafood Metals Agriculture Energy

2 April Commodity Prices Changes (percent from previous month) Lead Zinc Crude Oil Wool, Fine Sunflower Oil Cotton Gasoline Beef Coffee, Arabica Aluminum Copper Olive Oil Wool, Coarse Bananas Soybeans Oil Coffee, Robustas Sugar Poultry Sawnwood Soft Logs Soft Shrimp Logs Hard Rapeseed Oil Sawnwood Hard Cocoa Fish (Salmon) Lamb Soybeans Swine Corn Uranium Rubber Rice Barley Fish Meal Groundnuts Palm Oil Natural Gas, Japan Wheat Orange Coal, Australia Hides Soybean Meal Tea Nickel Natural Gas, US Tin Iron Ore Natural gas, Germany 2

3 Table 1. Market Prices for Non-Fuel and Fuel Commodities Units Q2 214Q3 214Q4 215Q Food Cereals Wheat $/MT Maize $/MT Rice $/MT Barley $/MT Vegetable oils and protein meals Soybeans $/MT Soybean meal $/MT Soybean oil $/MT Palm oil $/MT Fish meal $/MT Sunflower Oil $/MT Olive oil $/MT Groundnuts $/MT Rapeseed oil $/MT Meat Beef cts/lb Lamb cts/lb Swine Meat cts/lb Poultry cts/lb Seafood Fish $/kg Shrimp $/kg Sugar Free market cts/lb United States cts/lb EU cts/lb Bananas $/MT Oranges $/MT Beverages Coffee Other milds cts/lb Robusta cts/lb Cocoa Beans $/MT Tea cts/kg Agricultural raw materials Timber Hardwood Logs 1/ $/M Sawnwood 1/ $/M Softwood Logs 1/ $/M Sawnwood 1/ $/M Cotton cts/lb Wool Fine cts/kg Coarse cts/kg Rubber cts/lb Hides cts/lb / Provisional. 2/ Average Petroleum Spot Price (APSP). Average of U.K. Brent, Dubai, and West Texas Intermediate, equally weighted. 3

4 Table 1. Market Prices for Non-Fuel and Fuel Commodities (Continued) Units Q2 214Q3 214Q4 215Q Metals Copper $/MT Aluminum $/MT Iron Ore $/MT Tin $/MT Nickel $/MT Zinc $/MT Lead $/MT Uranium $/lb Energy Spot Crude 2/ $/bbl U.K. Brent $/bbl Dubai $/bbl West Texas Intermediate $/bbl Natural Gas Russian in Germany $/mmbtu Indonesian in Japan (LNG) $/mmbtu US, domestic market $/mmbtu Coal Australian, export markets $/MT / Provisional. 2/ Average Petroleum Spot Price (APSP). Average of U.K. Brent, Dubai, and West Texas Intermediate, equally weighted. Table 2. Indices of Market Prices for Non-Fuel and Fuel Commodities, (5=, in terms of U.S. dollars) 1/ (weights) 1/ Q2 214Q3 214Q4215Q1 Mar-15 Apr-15 All Primary Commodities 2/ Non-Fuel Commodities Agriculture Food Cereals Vegetable oils and protein meals Meat Seafood Beverages Agricultural raw materials 3/ Timber Metals Edibles 4/ Industrial Inputs 5/ Energy 6/ Petroleum 7/ Natural Gas Coal / Weights based on 2-4 average world export earnings. 2/ Non-Fuel Primary Commodities and Energy Index. 3/ Includes Forestry Products. 4/ Edibles comprised of Food and Beverages 5/ Industrial (Non-Fuel) Inputs comprised of Agriculture and Metals 6/ Includes Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal 7/ Average Petroleum Spot Price (APSP). Average of U.K. Brent, Dubai, and West Texas Intermediate, equally weighted. 4

5 Commodity Prices in U.S. Dollars, Coal ($/ton) Crude oil ($/bbl) 5 Australia South Africa Natural Gas ($/mmbtu) 35 Aluminium ($/ton) Japan Germany 3 25 United States Copper ($/ton) Iron Ore ($/ton) Nickel ($/ton) Zinc ($/ton) 5

6 Commodity Prices in U.S. Dollars, (continued) Bananas ($/ton) Beef (cents/pound) Cocoa ($/ton) 35 Coffee (cents/lb) Arabica Robusta 25 Cotton (cents/pound) 5 Logs ($/cubic meter) Hard Soft 35 Maize ($/ton) 13 Palm Oil ($/ton)

7 Commodity Prices in U.S. Dollars, (continued) 1 Rice ($/ton) 3 Rubber ($/lb) Shrimp ($/kg) Soybeans ($/ton) Soybeans Soybean meal Soybean Oil 6 3 Sugar (cents/pound) 4 Tea (cents/kg) Wheat ($/ton) Wool (cents/kg) Fine Coarse 25 7