The publication has many practical uses including commodity investment analysis, risk management, corporate planning, and budgeting. The commodities covered have been selected for their global appeal and traded on prominent futures markets such as the London Metal Exchange (LME), New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and InterContinental Exchange (ICE). For example, the gas oil forecasts below are based on Rotterdam spot prices for European gas oil.
| European Gas Oil Price Forecasts from June 15, 2015 Survey (US$/tonne) | ||||
| Survey spot = US$571.5 | Consensus (mean) | % change from spot | High | Low |
| June '15 | 576.9 | +0.9% | 598.9 | 551.3 |
| Sep. '15 | 579.2 | +1.3% | 600.0 | 538.0 |
| Dec. '15 | 597.1 | +4.5% | 627.9 | 556.0 |
| Mar. '16 | 645.5 | +12.9% | 710.5 | 596.0 |
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The table above shows a portion of gas oil price forecasts taken from the June 2015 issue of Energy & Metals Consensus Forecasts. Individual panellist forecasts for gas oil (and all other commodities) are presented in an Excel spreadsheet file which is sent out alongside the PDF copy of the publication each month.
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