Commodity prices
Moving daily
| Commodity | Price | Change |
|---|
| Brent spot, North Sea | £94.48/bbl | −0.44% |
| WTI spot, US | £72.49/bbl | −0.28% |
| Natural gas, UK | £19.37/mmbtu | +1.28% |
| GBP / USD | 1.327 | +0.15% |
| GBP / EUR | 1.185 | +0.09% |
| GBP / PLN | 5.174 | −0.16% |
Monthly average, October 2026 (1m = 1 month, 3m = 3 months)
| Commodity | Price | 1m | 3m |
|---|
| Oils and fats |
|---|
| Beef tallow | £1,127/t | +10.9% | −1.7% |
| Castor oil | £1,176/t | −2.7% | −3.9% |
| Coconut oil | £1,553/t | +6.1% | +4.6% |
| Groundnut oil | £1,386/t | +2.4% | +3.3% |
| Linseed oil | £1,230/t | −25.4%† | −4.9% |
| Olive oil | £2,729/t | −3.8% | −7.4% |
| Palm kernel oil | £1,755/t | +5.0% | +8.1% |
| Palm oil | £879/t | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| Rapeseed oil | £1,073/t | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| Sesame oil | £4,252/t | +5.5% | +4.4% |
| Soybean oil | £1,125/t | +2.1% | +5.6% |
| Sunflower oil | £1,102/t | −2.8% | −1.0% |
| Dairy |
|---|
| Butter | £3,512/t | −2.6% | +6.3% |
| Skimmed milk powder | £2,752/t | +4.1% | +19.3% |
| Grains, feed and protein |
|---|
| Fish meal | £2,173/t | +13.0% | +35.1% |
| Maize | £179/t | +8.0% | +20.8% |
| Rice | £359/t | +3.3% | −3.0% |
| Soybean meal | £333/t | +11.1% | +6.0% |
| Soybeans | £391/t | +9.7% | +12.2% |
| Wheat | £259/t | +6.1% | +20.6% |
| Soft commodities |
|---|
| Avocados | £1,819/t | +4.9% | −8.4% |
| Cocoa | £4,412/t | +0.4% | +33.7% |
| Coffee | £5,411/t | −8.1% | +6.3% |
| Cotton | £1,565/t | +0.5% | +9.9% |
| Sugar | £294/t | +4.9% | +12.2% |
| Tea | £2,124/t | −1.1% | −4.6% |
| Nuts |
|---|
| Almonds, shelled | £5,794/t | +4.7% | +4.0% |
| Cashews, shelled | £5,235/t | −2.2% | −3.0% |
| Hazelnuts, shelled | £6,596/t | −21.1% | −17.5% |
| Macadamias, shelled | £8,563/t | −12.3% | +4.3% |
| Peanuts, shelled | £968/t | +4.6% | +7.1% |
| Pistachios, shelled | £17,497/t | +2.5% | −2.7% |
| Walnuts, shelled | £5,116/t | +3.3% | +1.6% |
| Meat |
|---|
| Beef | £5,113/t | −4.9% | −8.6% |
| Chicken | £1,349/t | +8.1% | +1.6% |
| Lamb | £5,411/t | −1.4% | −3.4% |
| Energy |
|---|
| Crude oil (Brent) | £89.47/bbl | +33.3% | +39.7% |
| Crude oil (US) | £73.10/bbl | +19.7% | +19.0% |
| Natural gas (Europe) | £18.95/mmbtu | +21.5% | +66.6% |
| Natural gas (UK) | £18.79/mmbtu | −0.3% | +45.2% |
| Natural gas (US) | £2.20/mmbtu | +7.5% | −6.9% |
| Fertiliser |
|---|
| DAP | £597/t | +1.8% | +1.5% |
| Phosphate rock | £127/t | +0.9% | +7.7% |
| Potassium chloride | £274/t | −4.1% | −9.3% |
| TSP | £514/t | −1.1% | −6.8% |
| Urea | £304/t | +5.5% | −10.6% |
| Metals |
|---|
| Aluminium | £2,447/t | +1.9% | −5.1% |
| Copper | £10,788/t | +2.0% | +6.2% |
| Gold | £3,219/troy oz | −1.2% | +1.5% |
| Iron ore | £72.82/dmtu | +2.4% | −3.7% |
| Platinum | £1,330/troy oz | +1.2% | +2.7% |
| Silver | £48.15/troy oz | −0.3% | −3.7% |
| Tin | £40,034/t | −2.1% | +0.7% |
| Oleochemicals and personal care |
|---|
| Fatty acids (US) | 420 index, Jun 1985=100 | +6.7% | +7.7% |
| Glycerine, crude | £580/t | +5.5% | −5.7% |
| Glycerine, refined | £1,222/t | −0.3% | +16.3% |
| Propylene glycol | £1,488/t | +8.4% | +17.8% |
| Soap and detergent (US) | 244 index, Jun 1983=100 | +0.0% | +0.2% |
| Surfactants (US) | 354 index, Dec 1983=100 | +0.0% | +2.8% |
| Toilet preparations (US) | 252 index, Mar 1980=100 | +0.0% | +0.7% |
| Wood, board and packaging |
|---|
| Corrugated board (UK) | 138 index, 2015=100 | +0.7% | +2.4% |
| Corrugated containers (US) | 386 index, Jun 1987=100 | +2.2% | +5.6% |
| Glass containers (US) | 221 index, Dec 2003=100 | +0.0% | +0.1% |
| Logs, Malaysian | £142/m3 | +2.5% | +2.1% |
| Paperboard mills (US) | 412 index, Dec 1982=100 | +2.7% | +3.8% |
| Plastic bottles (US) | 181 index, Jun 1993=100 | +0.1% | +3.2% |
| Plastic resins (US) | 281 index, 1982=100 | −1.0% | −8.5% |
| Plywood | 260p/sheet | +2.5% | +2.1% |
| Recovered paper (export) | £114/t | −4.4% | −1.0% |
| Sawnwood, Malaysian | £545/m3 | +0.0% | +0.0% |
| Steel mill products (US) | 381 index, 1982=100 | +1.7% | +8.9% |
| Testliner | £435/t | −11.7% | −11.3% |
| Wood pulp (US) | 218 index, 1982=100 | +2.4% | +6.7% |
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As of: currencies 14 Oct · oil 6 Oct · UK gas 11 Oct
† Based on a month with under 50 tonnes of UK imports, so treat it with care.
Published benchmarks, not transacted prices. Converted at each month’s average European Central Bank reference rate; the sterling rate is derived through the euro. Conversion rates run to October 2026.
Where we have changed the published figures. Figures are converted to the unit and the currency shown where a publisher uses another. Where several prices exist for a commodity, the row shows their average.
Sourced from the World Bank Commodity Price Data, the Pink Sheet, CC BY 4.0; the European Commission agri-food data portal; HM Revenue and Customs overseas trade statistics and the Office for National Statistics, series EVVQ, both under the Open Government Licence v3.0; System Average Price of gas, sourced from National Gas Transmission, published by the Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0; Eurostat (Comext), imports of other castor oil from India, calculated by Portcroft; Eurostat (Comext), EU27 trade in recovered paper, converted to sterling and calculated by Portcroft, for which Eurostat is not responsible; the corrugated chain's twelve-month changes are to June 2026; Recovered paper, EU import value: implied from trade, the value of EU27 imports of recovered paper from the other member states divided by their quantity (CN 4707 10), a unit value and not a quoted price; Testliner, EU to UK import value: implied from trade, the value of UK imports from EU member states divided by their quantity (CN 4805 24 and 4805 25), a unit value and not a quoted price; the US Bureau of Labor Statistics; the U.S. Energy Information Administration (October 2026); the European Central Bank.
Retrieved from BLS.gov on 15 October 2026. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.