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HeadlineWatch
Commodity-market headlines from publicly reachable, source-labelled feeds and source pages, organised by sector with source labels and precise timestamps.
About CommodityWatch
CommodityWatch / About
News at spot price.
A signal-first commodity monitor built on public data.
CommodityWatch brings together the fundamentals that commodity analysts actually monitor day to day: benchmark prices, inventories, demand indicators, release schedules, and market headlines, organised for legibility and cross-reference rather than noise.
Why It Exists
Closing the gap between free data and institutional tools.
The project started from a simple observation: the gap between free commodity data and institutional platforms is enormous, and the middle has been underserved for years. Working analysts, graduate researchers, corporate hedging teams, and independent advisory shops still piece together the same information from too many tabs, spreadsheets, PDFs, and release calendars.
CommodityWatch is an attempt to replace that patchwork with something coherent, carefully sourced, and genuinely useful. The goal is not to mimic a financial terminal. The goal is to make the market easier to scan, compare, and trust.
What’s Inside
Five available modules, two placeholders, one shared shell.
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PriceWatch
Benchmark commodity prices across energy, metals, and agriculture, with historical context and contract-level detail views where the source coverage supports them.
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InventoryWatch
Storage and stock indicators across public oil, gas, grain, precious-metals, and ETF-linked sources, with seasonal context and days-of-supply or stocks-to-use ratios where defensible.
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DemandWatch
Demand-side indicators organised by a seven-tier reliability taxonomy and served through the root app's DemandWatch API path, with route JavaScript owning presentation mapping.
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CalendarWatch
Scheduled market releases from agencies and institutions that matter to commodity desks, with direct links back to the issuing source.
On the roadmap
SupplyWatch
SupplyWatch remains a planned shell surface in the navigation. It will be filled in only when the underlying source coverage is good enough to justify it.
Fixture/demo
WeatherWatch
WeatherWatch is served as a fixture/demo board for integration work. Fixture values are not live weather, official forecasts, weather advisories, or trading signals.
How The Data Works
Source-first methods, explicit caveats, no black box.
CommodityWatch prioritises public, official, or institutionally disclosed sources. Source classifications are operational product metadata, not legal advice. HeadlineWatch links to source pages; it does not mirror article bodies or reproduce paid assessment values.
Derived metrics are not hidden behind marketing language. Seasonal context, days-of-supply conventions, revision handling, and demand-tier classifications are documented in plain English, with the fuller technical notes collected on the Methodology page.
About The Builder
Built slowly, outside the day job, with a preference for restraint.
CommodityWatch is a solo project built by an economist with a background in commodity price reporting, financial data infrastructure, and market research, with economics degrees from two UK universities.
The operating principle is simple: a tool used by a thousand careful analysts is more valuable than a generic dashboard seen by a million casual visitors. That is why the platform is opinionated about what it covers, how it presents data, and which data-quality practices matter.
What’s Next
Tighten publication coverage, then deepen the analytical layers.
The current focus is tightening publication coverage, improving revision-aware histories, and making cross-links between module cards and source methodology more useful. CommodityWatch will stay narrow on purpose: better coverage, cleaner context, and less filler.
Feedback, data requests, and methodology corrections are always useful.