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Commodities and Futures

Barron's
Weekly. Lib. has: May 1921- date. Latest issues at B. Altman Delivery Desk & Cullman Reading Room browsing area. Earlier issues on microfilm in the Microform Reading Room on the lower level.
The CRB Commodity Yearbook/Knight-Ridder Financial, Commodity Research Bureau.
Commodity price trends; CRB indexes, U.S. and worldwide; futures volume traded; listing of individual commodities includes production, consumption, exports, imports, prices, monthly futures trading, 10 years.
1994-date. Latest edition at *R-SIBL HF1041.C56
Continues: The Knight-Ridder CRB Commodity Yearbook.
1993 at call # JBM 93-1210.
Continues: CRB Commodity Year Book.
1985-1992 at call # JLM 87-1116.
Continues: Commodity Year Book.
1939-1978, 1980-1984 at call # TLA - Offsite – Request in advance.

CRB Pricecharts
Weekly. 3 year bar charts for both spot and futures prices of Commodity indexes.
Each issue contains both Financial edition section and Agricultural edition section.
51:14, 2006 - date, at call #. JBN 06-3.
Latest 4 issues at McGraw Desk – 2 editions)
Continues: CRB Futures Perspective, 46:44, 2001 to 51:13, 2006, call # JBN 01-51.
Continues: Bridge/CRB Futures Perspective/Bridge Information Systems, 43:13, 1998 to 46:36, 2001,
Call # JBN 97-81.
Also continues Bridge/CRB Futures Perspective (Agricultural ed.), 43:13 1998 to 46:42, 2001.
Call # JBN 98-16.
Continues CRB Futures Perspective/ Knight-Ridder Financial, 41:1, 1997 to 43:12, 1998,
Call # JBN 97-22.

Commodities Research Bureau information about and monthly data from 1949 for commodity spot prices.

Commodities Price Locator/Karen J. Chapman
1989, at call # *R-SIBL Z7164.C83C46, McGraw Desk.

Commodity Prices/ Catherine Friedman
“ A source book and index providing reference to wholesale, retail and other quotations for more than 10,000 agricultural, commercial, industrial and consumer products.”
2nd ed., 1991, at call # *R-SIBL Z7164.P94.F74, McGraw Desk.

Commodity Trader’s Almanac
An annual guide to seasonal prices on 12 key commodities that shows different market tendencies on a calendar basis.
Latest ed. in Financial Services section.
2007 - at call # JBL 08-46

Futures
Monthly. Current at Delivery Desk; 2001-date, call # JBM 02-341;
v. 12, 1983 –v. 29, 2000, call # ZAN-T5869.
Continues: Commodities, JLM 77-440, Feb./Mar. 1972-1975
and on microfilm at call # *ZAN-T4525, 1976-Aug. 1983.

Futures. Source Book.
Special issue of Futures which contains brokers/advisors, information suppliers; electronic suppliers; professional services, ( i. e., accounting, legal); futures/options firms, futures/options exchanges, industry organizations, U.S. and non-U.S.; and Futures 2006 Index of Articles.
Latest ed. at call #R-SIBL HG6024, A3R44 at McGraw Desk
1993-, 2003, 2005-date at call # JBM 94-794.

Wall Street Journal
Commodities listed in “Personal Finance: Money & Investing” section.
(Eastern ed.). Lib has: July 1889 - date. Latest issue at B. Altman Delivery Desk & Cullman Reading Room browsing area. Earlier issues in microfilm at the Microform Reading Room on the lower level.