Commodity prices
Moving daily
| Commodity | Price | Change |
|---|
| Brent spot, North Sea | £86.03/bbl | −4.89% |
| WTI spot, US | £72.59/bbl | −3.11% |
| Natural gas, UK | £18.39/mmbtu | +0.90% |
| GBP / USD | 1.329 | +0.30% |
| GBP / EUR | 1.170 | +0.30% |
| GBP / PLN | 5.112 | +0.38% |
Monthly average, August 2026 (1m = 1 month, 3m = 3 months)
| Commodity | Price | 1m | 3m |
|---|
| Oils and fats |
|---|
| Coconut oil | £1,368/t | −4.9% | −15.0% |
| Groundnut oil | £1,354/t | +7.0% | −0.3% |
| Linseed oil | £1,314/t | +1.6% | −4.7% |
| Olive oil | £2,837/t | +1.3% | −6.5% |
| Palm kernel oil | £1,672/t | −7.4% | −6.7% |
| Palm oil | £825/t | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| Rapeseed oil | £1,088/t | −2.2% | −1.4% |
| Sesame oil | £4,252/t | +5.5% | +4.4% |
| Soybean oil | £1,099/t | +3.0% | +3.6% |
| Sunflower oil | £1,125/t | −0.7% | +2.4% |
| Dairy |
|---|
| Butter | £3,650/t | +3.0% | +10.3% |
| Skimmed milk powder | £2,669/t | +3.4% | +15.3% |
| Grains, feed and protein |
|---|
| Fish meal | £1,846/t | +17.4% | +21.7% |
| Maize | £165/t | +3.6% | +3.2% |
| Rice | £348/t | −0.4% | +6.6% |
| Soybean meal | £298/t | −3.0% | −4.9% |
| Soybeans | £356/t | −0.4% | +1.5% |
| Wheat | £244/t | +5.1% | +8.4% |
| Soft commodities |
|---|
| Avocados | £1,735/t | −10.0% | −24.0% |
| Cocoa | £4,394/t | +4.7% | +42.4% |
| Coffee, Arabica | £5,885/t | −0.5% | +14.2% |
| Coffee, Robusta | £2,939/t | −3.5% | +8.0% |
| Cotton | £1,558/t | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| Sugar | £281/t | +5.7% | +5.1% |
| Tea | £2,149/t | −3.6% | −3.4% |
| Nuts |
|---|
| Almonds, shelled | £5,536/t | +2.6% | +1.3% |
| Cashews, shelled | £5,351/t | +0.4% | +0.0% |
| Hazelnuts, shelled | £8,355/t | −7.8% | −26.2% |
| Macadamias, shelled | £9,766/t | — | +5.7% |
| Peanuts, shelled | £925/t | +6.3% | +8.3% |
| Pistachios, shelled | £17,066/t | −0.7% | −6.2% |
| Walnuts, shelled | £4,951/t | −0.6% | −7.5% |
| Meat |
|---|
| Beef | £5,376/t | −1.7% | −8.8% |
| Chicken | £1,248/t | −3.5% | −9.5% |
| Lamb | £5,486/t | −3.3% | +1.6% |
| Energy |
|---|
| Crude oil | £87.27/bbl | +30.0% | +36.3% |
| Natural gas | £18.37/mmbtu | +21.5% | +66.9% |
| Fertiliser |
|---|
| DAP | £586/t | +0.3% | +2.7% |
| Phosphate rock | £126/t | −1.3% | +11.0% |
| Potassium chloride | £286/t | −3.7% | −4.9% |
| TSP | £520/t | −3.3% | −1.7% |
| Urea | £288/t | −3.7% | −49.6% |
| Metals |
|---|
| Aluminium | £2,401/t | +1.5% | −11.7% |
| Copper | £10,579/t | +4.4% | +5.3% |
| Gold | £3,257/troy oz | +6.9% | −4.2% |
| Iron ore | £71.11/dmtu | −3.2% | −11.7% |
| Platinum | £1,314/troy oz | +8.4% | −11.3% |
| Silver | £48.29/troy oz | +9.8% | −16.5% |
| Tin | £40,897/t | +3.2% | +3.0% |
| Oleochemicals and personal care |
|---|
| Glycerine, crude | £549/t | −18.9% | −12.5% |
| Glycerine, refined | £1,225/t | +6.5% | +19.5% |
| Propylene glycol | £1,372/t | −11.8% | +12.3% |
| Wood, board and packaging |
|---|
| Corrugated board | 138 index, 2015=100 | +0.7% | +2.4% |
| Corrugated containers | 386 index, Jun 1987=100 | +1.9% | +5.7% |
| Logs, Malaysian | £138/m3 | +1.0% | −0.9% |
| Paperboard mills | 412 index, Dec 1982=100 | +2.8% | +3.8% |
| Plywood | 254p/sheet | +1.0% | −0.9% |
| Recovered paper (export) | £119/t | −1.3% | −0.7% |
| Sawnwood, Malaysian | £545/m3 | +0.0% | −0.1% |
| Testliner | £492/t | +2.4% | +19.7% |
| Wood pulp | 218 index, 1982=100 | +2.4% | +7.0% |
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As of: currencies 30 Sep · oil 29 Sep · UK gas 27 Sep
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 September 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; the US Bureau of Labor Statistics; the U.S. Energy Information Administration (September 2026); the European Central Bank.
Retrieved from BLS.gov on 10 September 2026. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.