Commodities
How commodity price benchmarks — oil (Brent & WTI), natural gas (Henry Hub), and food prices (FAO) — reflect wars, sanctions, and chokepoint risk. Source-linked market benchmarks, not causal attributions, not real-time.
Explore commodity price history
Pick a group and a time range. Lines are monthly average price levels in the same unit, so they compare honestly.
Brent and WTI benchmark crude, monthly average, nominal US$.
World Bank World Bank Commodity Price Data (the Pink Sheet) — committed monthly snapshot covering 1960-01 to 2024-12 (latest available month in the committed file; not real-time). Dashed lines mark dated Warconomy events as reference points — prices move for many reasons and this is not a claim any single event was the sole cause. Source-reported market benchmarks, not investment advice.
Monthly data · through 2024-12 · how fresh is this?
Commodities dashboard
One source-linked summary of every commodity benchmark, coverage, and review status across the topics below.
Topics
Economic impact of oil price benchmarks (Brent & WTI)
Brent and WTI are the world's most-watched crude oil benchmarks.
Economic impact of natural gas prices
Gas prices drive heating, power, industry, and fertilizer costs.
Economic impact of food commodity prices
The FAO Food Price Index is a trade-weighted basket of five sub-indices.