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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
- Data Formats:
- JSON
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Real time conflated
- Daily
Eikon
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv DataScope Select
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- API
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv Datastream
- Data Formats:
- HTML
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- RSS Feed
- API
- Desktop
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday snapshot
- Daily
LSEG Workspace
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- XML
- JSON
- User Interface
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Desktop
- Excel
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time
- Real time delayed
Refinitiv DataScope Plus
- Data Formats:
- XML
- Zip Archive
- GZIP
- Delimited
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- FTP
- SFTP
- Service Frequencies:
- Daily
Refinitiv Tick History
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- JSON
- GZIP
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- API
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Intraday
Refinitiv Real-Time - Direct
- Data Formats:
- String Format
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv Real-Time - Ultra Direct
- Data Formats:
- PCAP
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed
- Daily
Refinitiv Tick History - PCAP
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- PCAP
- Parquet
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- API
- SFTP
- Cloud
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed, Daily
Refinitiv Tick History Workbench
- Data Formats:
- CSV
- SQL
- Python
- Delivery Mechanisms:
- Website
- API
- SQL
- Service Frequencies:
- Real time delayed, Daily
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