Where to find historical price of commodities etc ?
I'm an intern at a PE shop. My background is in medicine so naive questions maybe.
- How do you find historical S&P 500, GDP and Crude oil prices 2015-2017? 2.How do you find prices of what I assume are commodities, e.g. recycled paper pulp, corrugated paperboard?
- What factor is used to compare these niche commodities with S&P 500, GDP and Crude oil price data from those periods, with ultimate goal of determining if sensitive to "economic downturn"? Incidentally, if this involves statistics, I have not yet had a course in statistics. Is there some aggregate stock index with given number value, I'm thinking?
- (What is what I'm doing called/applicable to?)
1) use the St. Louis Fed FRED database and the commodity exchanges (CME, LME, etc.). 2) same as above 3) just computer the correlation and/or covariance. Just Google the calculation, you'll get it.
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Yeah now that I get it, not the most exciting task, but I get excited about with the learning curve lol
Historical herb commodity prices (Originally Posted: 04/27/2013)
Hey guys,
I'm looking for the price of basil or a proxy for basil on a yearly basis historically. Actually, any information on basil would be great.
Thanks
"Actually, any information on basil would be great."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil
Well, I believe my job here is done.
Oh wow thanks
Basil is a vegetable bro
I appreciate the humour, however, I actually really do need to find this as basil is the primary COGS for this company I am researching and I can't really find much. Any serious help would be much appreciated.
The market for selling basil "herb" to middle schoolers is pretty thin, not sure SEC or FINRA even really looks at it.
D.A.R.E. might be a good resource to check out
okay now that was pretty funny lol
We've got our long-term herb price model spitting out an even $600/lb for the schwag and Back Bay Blueberry Yum Yum riding the wave all the way to $1000/lb, $2200/kg, or $2M/short ton
Would love to see your assumptions, you must be pricing in a pretty significant supply shock from mexican cartel penetration into NorCal grow fields.
Rest of WSO, learning how to forecast herb is a very beneficial model to learn. Very similar to natty gas with shale play and gov. deregulation. Only half joking...
The problem is forecasting unproven reserve values. When your standardized measure on Washington herb takes a 90% haircut overnight and your exploration costs go through the roof with increased demand, it just stops becoming economical to use those aggressive models anymore. We're out here grindin' on the daily, booking PUDs at ceiling value when we stumble upon a promising underground grow operation... when really we should be crossing our fingers for 75% recovery on that bad boy. It's a dog eat dog world out there these days and personally I blame Obama for destroying a good thing we had goin' out here. Best of luck to the other pushas out there.
Looks like im on my own for this one
Historical Prices? (Originally Posted: 05/30/2009)
Hey,
Does anyone know where I can find historical prices for base metals going back to 2000. I'm hesitant to use Infomine and such because I want the average price for every year and not just the price at a certain date.
Also, it'd be helpful if it was just a table with all the prices that I can put into Excel and not a graph.
Thanks!
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