Commodities Daily Price: Indexes, Energy, and Agricultural Futures

Daily price data for over a dozen commodities and indexes, including the Baltic Dry Index, crude oil, corn, and cocoa, is provided by the author 'paperswithbacktest'. The dataset was last updated on March 8, 2026, and is hosted on Hugging Face with platform tags indicating it is optimized for tabular regression tasks. Specific column details, row counts, and file sizes are not provided in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Forecasting price trends for agricultural commodities like corn and cotton based on daily price series.
• Analyzing correlations between energy commodities (e.g., Crude Oil, Brent Crude) and broader indexes like the CRB Index.
• Modeling supply chain and shipping costs using the Baltic Dry Index (BDIY) as a feature.
• Building regression models to predict soft commodity prices such as cocoa and coffee.

Strengths

• Includes a diverse set of over a dozen commodities and economic indexes, covering energy, agriculture, and shipping.
• Data is stored in an OPTIMIZED-PARQUET format, which suggests efficient storage and access for tabular data.
• Platform tags indicate the dataset is specifically categorized for tabular regression tasks, clarifying its intended use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file size, and specific date ranges are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The license is listed as 'other' and is not specified, requiring verification before commercial use.

Provenance

Source

huggingface

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-08 08:21:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

us (inferred from platform tag 'Regionus')