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An overview of General Index
General Index provides robust, reliable price transparency for the world’s commodity markets.
As the world’s first tech-native benchmark provider, General Index collects and aggregates trade data to build a full view of market activity, and then applies algorithmic index methodologies consistently, accurately and without subjective judgement.
Energy markets covered include crude oil, refined products and LPG across Asia, EU and US.
Our benchmarks can replace the entrenched journalistic ones of today, and also reflect the evolving markets and trading patterns of tomorrow.
General Index is headquartered in London with offices in Houston and Singapore, and staff around the world.
Key Facts
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Geographical coverageGlobal
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HistoryFrom 2020
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Data formatCSVDelimitedGZIPJSONPythonUser InterfaceXMLZip Archive
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Delivery mechanismAPIDesktopExcelFTPSFTP
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Data frequencyContinuousDaily
Features & Benefits
What you get with General Index
- Quick and convenient access through a single desktop.
- Indexes are calculated using the market-accepted methodologies developed in partnership with the industry.
- Robust, reliable price transparency for the world’s commodity markets.
- Daily and monthly prices and analysis with a mix of pricing, trades and exclusive industry information.
- Indexes are calculated through a volume-weighted average methodology, while others are calculated through all-day or end-of-day assessment processes.
- High quality benchmark data at significantly lower cost than other providers.
How it works
Accessing the dataset
This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.
LSEG Workspace
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Continuous
- Daily
Refinitiv DataScope Select
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Continuous
- Daily
Eikon
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Continuous
- Daily
Request Details
Call your local sales team
Americas
All countries (toll free): +1 800 427 7570
Brazil: +55 11 47009629
Argentina: +54 11 53546700
Chile: +56 2 24838932
Mexico: +52 55 80005740
Colombia: +57 1 4419404
Europe, Middle East, Africa
Europe: +442045302020
Africa: +27 11 775 3188
Middle East & North Africa: 800035704182
Asia Pacific (Sub-Regional)
Australia & Pacific Islands:
+612 8066 2494
China mainland: +86 10 6627 1095
Hong Kong & Macau: +852 3077 5499
India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives & Sri Lanka:
+91 22 6180 7525
Indonesia: +622150960350
Japan: +813 6743 6515
Korea: +822 3478 4303
Malaysia & Brunei: +603 7 724 0502
New Zealand: +64 9913 6203
Philippines: 180 089 094 050 (Globe) or
180 014 410 639 (PLDT)
Singapore and all non-listed ASEAN Countries:
+65 6415 5484
Taiwan: +886 2 7734 4677
Thailand & Laos: +662 844 9576
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