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Rates and Statistics

Price indexes

Commodity price index

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Production Weights in the Fisher BCPI

  FWBCPI weights (%) Fisher BCPI - nominal commodity shares by major group (%)
    1978 1988 1998 2010
Energy 34 30 26 29 61
Crude oil
 21 18 15 15 33
Natural gas
 11 10 9 12 26
Non-energy 66 70 74 71 39
Agriculture
 16 25 17 19 9
Metals and minerals
 16 16 23 19 16
Forestry
 33 27 31 31 14
Fisheries
 1 2 2 2 1
Description of BCPI Components
Commodity Price source
Energy
Coal (US$/tonne) long-term contract price for Canadian exports of metallurgical coal
Oil (US$/barrel) West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil at Cushing, Oklahoma
Natural gas (US$/MBtu) New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
Metals and Minerals
Gold (US$/oz.) Handy and Harman base price, N.Y.
Silver (US$/oz.) Handy and Harman base price, N.Y.
Nickel (US$/lb.) LME cash settlement
Copper (US$/lb.) LME cash settlement
Aluminium (US$/lb.) LME cash settlement
Zinc (US$/lb.) LME cash settlement
Potash (US$/tonne) standard potassium chloride, spot price, f.o.b. Vancouver
Lead U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Producer Price Statistics
Iron U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Producer Price Statistics
Forestry
Pulp (US$/tonne) bleached northern softwood kraft, transactions price, delivery U.S.A.
Lumber (US$/thousand board feet) spruce-pine-fir, 2"x4", Crow's
Newsprint (US$/tonne) transactions price to large buyers, delivery eastern U.S.A.
Agriculture
Potatoes U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Producer Price Statistics
Cattle (US$/100 lb.) U.S. Department of Agriculture
Hogs (US$/100 lb.) U.S. Department of Agriculture
Wheat (US$/bushel) U.S. #1 spring wheat, 14% protein
Barley (US$/bushel) #1 CW at Thunder Bay
Canola (US$/bushel) #1 Canada in store Vancouver
Corn (US$/bushel) U.S. corn #2, hard

Fisheries

  • Fish prices are now divided into ocean fish (o) and shellfish (s).
  • These prices are obtained directly from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Ocean fish data are located in BLS catalogue 022301.
  • Shellfish data are located in BLS catalogue 022305.
  • http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch14.pdf