Market Data – Biofuels

Platts Market Data – Biofuels helps you identify trends and trading patterns resulting from the impact of new mandates, droughts and low feedstock yields on ethanol, biodiesel, MTBE, ETBE and RINs from across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Be confident in your position with instant access to the latest global price assessments, geographic arbitrage opportunities, historical data, and analysis of the fundamentals impacting price.

• Trade at price levels that are in sync with other market participants by having the latest global price assessments always to hand
• Quickly get a complete picture of the market
• Write contracts and negotiate transactions with confidence by understanding price driver and fluctuations
• Develop an inherently strong pricing and business strategy by referencing daily and historical spot and contract price assessments
• Mark your books, manage risk and support analysis and research when tracking trading patterns and price trends
• Support your Value at Risk (VAR) risk management analysis with access to our historical data
• Find your next opportunity by analyzing your forward curves and identifying diverse trading patterns, pricing trends and characteristics
• Quickly and easily absorb real-time information and end-of-day data within seconds of it being published with Platts API or intuitive Platts Excel Add-In

• Over 150 S&P Global proprietary biofuels assessments and 1,400 third party price assessments
• Three benchmarks: Ethanol Chicago (terminal), Ethanol NYH Barge and Ethanol T2 FOB Rotterdam
• Most commonly traded grades: biodiesel, DDG, DTN ethanol, EIA, ETBE, ethanol, ethanol swaps, RINs, USDA corn, USDA DDG, USDA DWG, USDA ethanol
• Global coverage: Americas, Europe and Asia
• Rolling 45-day historical database with some biofuels assessments dating back to 2004
• Consolidated information from Platts Petrochemical Alert, Platts Global Alert and other Platts market reports and market data categories
• Choice of format and delivery for easy integration into back-office and analytical databases