Bigdata.com is the AI grounding layer for business and finance. With Mysteel on board, the AI agents that run on it can work from first-hand reporting on China's physical and futures markets, plus an archive going back to 2019.
We've partnered with Mysteel, China's largest commodity market intelligence provider, to bring its reporting into Bigdata.com. It's available as Commodity Intelligence, included with Financial Newswires.
Bigdata.com is the AI grounding layer for business and finance. With Mysteel on board, the AI agents that run on it can work from first-hand reporting on China's physical and futures markets, plus an archive going back to 2019.
The coverage runs across metals, energy, chemicals, agriculture, construction materials and new-energy supply chains. Along with prices, it tracks what sits behind them: production, inventories, trade flows, plant shutdowns, policy decisions and macroeconomic events.
About Mysteel
Mysteel is China's first IOSCO-compliant price reporting agency, known for its first-hand market reporting and industry expertise. That matters when an agent's answer is only as good as the source it's grounded in.
Alongside Mysteel's specialist reporting, the package includes flash news from InfoQuanta for faster, shorter updates.
The archive goes back to 2019 and holds more than 710,000 articles. New content arrives in real time, so you can look at what's happening today and compare it with what happened in previous years.
What it covers
The commodity universe spans steel and iron ore, base metals, battery materials, energy and chemicals, agricultural products, and construction materials. Within that, the reporting falls into four broad areas:
Exchanges. China's main physical and futures markets, with references to SHFE, DCE, CZCE, INE and GFEX, plus international exchanges such as LME, CME, CBOT, COMEX, NYMEX and ICE.
Prices and trading. Commodity prices and percentage changes, spot and futures activity, contract spreads and contract months, and comparisons with previous reporting periods.
Production, supply and trade. Production volumes, capacity changes, inventories, supply and demand, imports and exports, plant maintenance and shutdowns, port activity, and logistics.
External drivers. Company developments, government policy, tariffs, economic releases, interest rates, foreign exchange, weather, and geopolitical events that affect commodity markets.
Put together, that means you can follow a price move and the fundamentals behind it in the same place.
How teams use it
The content is built for traders, analysts, researchers and investment teams, and for the AI agents they work with. A few examples of what that looks like day to day:
Daily market monitoring. Tracking spot and futures activity and contract spreads across metals and energy markets.
Price trends. Spotting pricing trends in chemicals or agricultural products by comparing current reports with previous periods.
Supply and demand. Assessing production, capacity, inventories, demand and plant shutdowns for a given commodity.
Trade and logistics. Following aluminium or palm oil trade flows, port activity, and logistics constraints.
Event risk. Gauging how a policy decision, a weather event or a geopolitical development is hitting markets like natural gas or cotton.
Investment research. Adding commodity context to company, sector and macroeconomic research.
The common thread is early warning. Because developments arrive as they happen, the content helps teams catch emerging risks and opportunities rather than reading about them after the fact.
Getting access
Commodity Intelligence is included with Financial Newswires, so if you're a Bigdata client and already have that package, the content is part of it. If you'd like to know more or see it in action, reach out to us at sales@bigdata.com.
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