Today, CRU, the global commodities business intelligence company announced that CRU price data will be available to mutual customers on the Bloomberg Terminal via the function {CRUI<GO>}. This allows Bloomberg Terminal users to license and access CRU’s reliable assessed price series for metals, mining and fertilizer commodities.
Expanded access to this data will empower the financial community with effortless integration of CRU's industry-leading data used seamlessly in their existing workflows on the Bloomberg Terminal. Mutual customers will gain direct access to unrivalled, transparent price data rooted in robust methodologies. Further, it ensures customers have effortless access to the critical commodities information they require for their decision making.
With a reputation for transparency, all of CRU’s assessments are based on robust methodologies. CRU’s global team of price assessors and expert analysts work together to ensure prices are unbiased and accurate, and detailed specifications of all CRU price assessments are published for reference.
Delivering prices across commodities including the steel, aluminium, base metals and fertilizer value chains, CRU publishes more than 850 price assessments. Coverage extends across key global markets, with teams of experts based in Europe, the Americas, China, India, Asia and Australia.
Aaron Gill, CRU’s Global Head of Sales, said: “CRU is trusted by professionals around the world, and part of our mission is to ensure that more people can get access to our data and prices.
This means that we are continually looking for new avenues that will allow us to share our prices with new audiences, and working with Bloomberg allows us to meet this ambition. We are thrilled to be embarking on this collaboration, and believe this will be the start of a long-term, strategic relationship.”
Emilie Gallagher, Global Head of Commodities, FX and Macroeconomics at Bloomberg, said: ““Macroeconomic factors like monetary policy, geopolitical influences across developed and emerging markets, and a transitioning energy sector require investors to use sophisticated analytical tools powered by robust market information for commodities like metals. We are pleased to collaborate with CRU to provide Bloomberg Terminal customers with critical workflow solutions and transparent commodities pricing data to aid their multi-asset investment decisions.”
