Alongside exchange prices, the broadest fundamental database ever built around metal markets: the official statistics of Europe, the United States and China — production, prices, trade, labour, energy, public finance — collected at the source, verified and searchable in one place.
Europe, the United States, China: the official statistics behind every quotation.
The whole Eurostat statistical framework relevant to market operators: industrial short-term statistics, prices, national accounts, labour, energy, environment, transport, business structure, trade by product. All Member States, plus the official aggregates (euro area, EU27).
First-hand institutional sources: Federal Reserve (FRED), Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Treasury. From 1929 GDP to the federal debt updated every day to the penny.
A direct link with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the full history that international mirrors do not offer: steel and nonferrous metals from 2013, producer prices from 1996, PMIs from 2005 with all sub-indices, real estate from 1999.
PRODCOM: sold production, total production, exports and imports by single industrial product, for every EU country and for the EU27 aggregate, in value and in quantity, from 1995 — ores, pig iron, steels, aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, tin, nickel, semi-finished products, scrap. The supply chains of the 7 LME metals (aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, tin, nickel, cobalt) mapped code by code along the five links of the chain: ore, intermediate, primary metal, semi-finished product, scrap. Chinese physical output month by month and metallurgy producer prices in the three economies.
Production, turnover, orders and price indices of European industry by NACE sub-sector, history from 1953; US industrial production by NAICS industry, foundries and primary metals included; Chinese industrial value added. Surveys and leading indicators: business and consumer confidence (ESI and components), Chinese manufacturing PMI with sub-indices, regional Fed surveys, CFNAI, OECD leading indicators.
The complete European HICP (2025=100 indices, all COICOP items, with the official weights of each national basket), the Chinese CPI, the PPIs of the three economies, services producer prices, energy prices by consumption band (electricity and gas, households and businesses).
GDP and components for Europe (annual and quarterly, current prices and chain-linked volumes), the US NIPA accounts from 1929, Chinese GDP via OECD; purchasing power parities and comparative price levels; labour cost per hour worked. And the projections: European demography to 2100 and the IMF world macroeconomic framework.
Monthly unemployment, employment by sector (annual and quarterly LFS), job vacancies, population by age group, births, migration and the official projections to 2100.
European debt and deficit (annual and quarterly EDP), the US federal budget line by line (Monthly Treasury Statement) and the US federal debt updated every day to the penny from 1993.
Monthly European energy balances (gas, solid fuels, oil, electricity), energy prices, Brent and US industrial electricity (EIA), Chinese coke and coal; material flows and circular economy, waste generation, emissions by sector; freight transport by mode.
European structural business statistics (SBS): turnover, value added, persons employed, personnel costs, productivity, by NACE sector and enterprise size class — over 800,000 series.
European short- and long-term rates from 1970, the euro area yield curve, US (Fed Funds) and Chinese (PBoC from 1996) policy rates; nominal and real effective exchange rates (BIS) for 30 economic areas; the historical series of European exchange rates, including official monthly averages and pre-euro currencies.
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