Chemical Prices from Datastream
Datastream -we'll provide link to historical yearly prices here because this single-user resource at Management Library gets such heavy use. Not all chemicals prices are available. It's in Excel, be sure to scroll to see everything.
Try Factiva next (for Platt's prices),
Chemical Prices
- Energy Information Administration
Natural gas and crude oil prices and production information. - Agricultural Prices Summary
US Department of Agriculture site for prices and statistics of soybeans and other agricultural products - Factiva
Contains some price information in articles from chemical engineering trade journals and sources such as Dow Chemical, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Week, Platt's Commodity News, and ICIS Chemical Business. Click on Search, make sure to search all dates. - Dow Press Releases Contains prices for various commodities, such as propylene glycol. To go further back in time, check Factiva.
- Bloomberg Single user workstations at Mann, Management libraries. Has prices for commodities, including olefins.
- Chemical Engineering Current Economic Indicators Located on the back page of recent issues of Chemical Engineering (TP1 .C513), use multipliers to estimate historical prices. No online access
- Chemical Market Reporter While they no longer publish prices for free, we do have historical prices on microfiche #149 and paper versions of this paper at TP 934 .04
- ICIS Chemical Business Americas
Full text of articles good data in Product Profile (published weekly, each chemical updated every 18-24 months). We unfortunately lack a subscription to prices. - ICIS Students Chemical Business Historical Prices Here's a page created for student use. Has 2006-2008 prices. Also includes an ICIS Connect Forum, which includes downloads.
- SciFinder Scholar Find out who manufacturers or purifies the compound from Scifinder or ACS, then go to that website. Contact commercial suppliers and ask if they will give you price data.
- CRC Commodity Yearbook Historical data, pricing and trading patterns and tables, and graphs covering production/consumption, supply and demand patterns. Management Library on CD HF1041.C73.
- Basic Petroleum Data Book Crude oil prices HD9564 .B31 Engr Reference Statistics, Olin oversize HD9564 .B31+.
- Bloomberg Professional Stand-alone stations at Managment and Hotel libraries have chemical prices.
- Commodity Prices Engr Statistics HD 1769 .W32 1991w
- ChemSources Check ChemSources and Sigma-Aldrich's Chemicals for small quantities. Engr Handbooks TP 202 A36.
- Producer Price Indexes Click on PPI Tables, PPT Detailed report tables. Look for commodity data. "Producer price indexes and percent changes for commodity groupings." Also Management Library HB235.U5 A47
- Olefin files from Bloomberg
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