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An overview of London Metal Exchange - LME
- We provide coverage of the London Metal Exchange, which is the world centre for industrial metals trading. The prices discovered on the London Metal Exchange’s 3 trading platforms are used as the global reference price, and both the metal and investment communities use the LME to transfer or take on risk, 24 hours a day.
- We provide the LME’s main market information services in real time Level 1 and Level 2 (market depth) and delayed data (fee liable) for all instruments (futures, options, spreads).
- You can access the data in many ways, which is designed and tailored for your specific needs and workflows. These could be for trading using electronic low latency data-feed, through our desktop services which provide deep analytical tools or via our end-of-day valuation and risk management products. LME provide free-of-fees EOD data but only after midnight.
Key Facts
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Geographical coverageUnited KIngdom
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HistoryFrom 2001
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Data formatCSVDelimitedGZIPHTMLJSONPCAPParquetPythonSQLString FormatUser InterfaceXMLZip Archive
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Delivery mechanismAPICloudDesktopExcelFTPRSS FeedSFTPSQLWebsite
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Data frequencyContinuousDaily
Features & Benefits
What you get with London Metal Exchange - LME
- We provide an LME real-time low latency data-feed platform, which provides access to all data types in a globally consistent data model allowing open access and easy adoption of all global exchanges.
- We also provide delayed trade reporting data (10 minutes – free-of-fees) as well as a delayed data package post-midnight (also free of fees).
- Full data access is provided in our Eikon and Workspace desktop solutions, which have a wealth of value-add analytics and daily and intraday charting applications.
- We provide a consolidated set of current and historical data as well as providing a deep insight both the physical and futures markets.
- Depending on your specific needs, you can receive full LME data package, standard Level 1 and level 2 access or delayed data (30 minutes), which drives all investor workflows and access to any price.
- We are market leaders in the depth of historic data that is stored which is all validated and cleansed. We have years of normalised data available in our end-of-day historical data and our full Tick History data services covering all LME historical data.
- We offer both intuitive request-response and bulk access to a wide array of LME reference data content, including instrument and venue-level reference data, and cross-reference symbology.
- Power your applications with market data feed handlers offering robust performance and comprehensive features or access our cloud data store of full-depth, raw exchange PCAP data.
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.
Refinitiv Data Platform
The Refinitiv Data Platform delivers a single, consistent data experience to access, distribute and build with Refinitiv and third party data. With cloud-enabled platform capabilities and flexible distribution options, the Refinitiv Data Platform enables faster deployment of applications, greater scale with workflow-critical analytics and a reimagined approach to technology innovation, data distribution and management
- Data Formats:
- JSON
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Real time conflated
- Daily
Eikon
Refinitiv Eikon delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv DataScope Select
Refinitiv DataScope Select is a unique platform that offers intuitive, cross-asset and timely access to all of Refinitiv reference and pricing data. Data is delivered by Refinitiv DataScope Select across the following platforms: HTTP/HTTPS, SFTP and API.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv Datastream
Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 40 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 15 million economic indicators. It features 100+ years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events.
Datastream is available via Datastream Advance (EOL Sept 2021) or via Eikon DFO, Eikon R&A, Refinitiv Workspace for Students, Refinitiv Workspace for Academics, Refinitiv Workspace for Wealth. It is expected to be included in many more variants of Refinitiv Workspace during 2021.
Datafeed access is via Datastream Data Loader & Datastream Web Service (which includes Matlab, EViews, Python, R & codebook integration)
Client desktop tools include
DFO (Datastream for Office)
Datastream Charting, including Chartbook
Navigator - Search & Navigation tool
- Data Formats:
- HTML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- RSS Feed
- API
- Desktop
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday snapshot
- Daily
Workspace
Refinitiv Workspace delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv DataScope Plus
Refinitiv DataScope Plus delivers bulk end of day pricing and intraday reference and entity data that updates automatically every 15 minutes based to ensure clients’ security masters are current and accurate.
- Data Formats:
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Refinitiv Tick History
Tick History provides superior coverage of complete, timely, and global nanosecond tick data. This enables you to download the data you need when you need it, via a single interface.
Coverage goes back as far as 1996 with a standardized naming convention based on RIC symbology that helps lower your data management cost.
Captured from real-time data feeds, Tick History offers global tick data since 1996 across all asset classes, covering both OTC and exchange-traded instruments from 500+ exchanges and third-party contributor data, the majority available two hours after markets close.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- JSON
- GZIP
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- API
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday
Refinitiv Real-Time - Direct
Refinitiv Real-Time Direct is a low latency feed handler that delivers data on an Exchange-by-Exchange basis. Refinitiv offers a low latency solution without the problems associated with managing feeds and software by combining the fastest speed in the market with a remote management capability.
- Data Formats:
- String Format
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv Real-Time - Ultra Direct
Proven technology for market participants requiring ultra low-latency market data of the highest quality. Power your applications with our market data feed handler, which offers robust performance and comprehensive features.
- Data Formats:
- PCAP
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv Tick History - PCAP
Refinitiv Tick History - PCAP is a cloud-based, 20+ petabyte repository of ultra-high quality global market data, captured directly in the exchange data centres. It enables you to access complete sets of lossless, top-of-book and full-depth data (Levels 1, 2 and 3) in your choice of format. You can save bandwidth and compute costs by bringing your query to our cloud, seamlessly pulling down only the data or pre-configured analytics you need.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- PCAP
- Parquet
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- SFTP
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed, Daily
Refinitiv Tick History Workbench
We developed Refinitiv Tick History Workbench with the analyst in mind leveraging standard tools and pre-built examples. Move away from data management and focus on analysing market microstructure, trading strategies or execution quality. Refinitiv Tick History Workbench includes SQL access to RTH-PCAP with 20+ petabytes of data including Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 data feeds. Your business will be powered by the highest quality top-of-book and depth-of-book data.
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- SQL
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- API
- SQL
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed, Daily
DETAILED DATA SUPPORT
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RIC SearchDiscover specific data that Refinitiv makes available for each RIC (Reuters Instrument Code).
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Real-Time message specificationsSpecifications for our real-time messages, components and fields.
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Our historical pricing dataExample usage, data and schema for our historical pricing data, which cover 20m+ products.
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