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- CRB® Spot Indices

Current Construction
  • Metals: Copper scrap*, lead scrap, steel scrap, tin, and zinc*.
  • Textiles and Fibers: Burlap, cotton, print cloth, and wool tops.
  • Livestock and Products: Hides, hogs, lard, steers, and tallow.
  • Fats and Oils: Butter, soybean oil, lard, and tallow.
  • Raw Industrials: Hides, tallow, copper scrap, lead scrap, steel scrap, zinc, tin, burlap, cotton, print cloth, wool tops, rosin, and rubber (59.1%).
  • Foodstuffs: Hogs, steers, lard, butter, soybean oil, cocoa, corn, Kansas City wheat, Minneapolis wheat, and sugar (40.9%).

Specifications for commodities included in the index as of January 1986

Commodity Specifications Market
Burlap (01) 10 oz., 40", ex-dock or ex-warehouse, duty paid, per yd. New York
Butter (02) Grade AA, 92 score, per lb. Chicago
Cocoa beans (CC) Ivory Coast, per metric ton New York
Copper scrap (HG) No. 2 heavy copper and wire, refiners' buying price, carload lots, delivered buyers' works, per lb. New York
Corn (C-) No. 2 yellow, per bu. Central Illinois
Cotton (06) 1-1/16" SLM, per lb. 7 markets
Hides (30) Heavy native steers, packer 30/53 lbs., fleshed, packer to tanner, dealer, or exporter per lb., f.o.b. shipping point. Chicago
Hogs (LH) U.S. No. 2's and 3's, 200=220 lbs., per 100 lb. Iowa / S. Minn.
Lard (09) Prime Steam, in tanks, per lb. Chicago
Lead scrap (10) Battery plates, smelters' buying price, East, carload lots; delivered buyers' works, per lb. New York
Print cloth (11) 48", 78*78 count, 4 yds./lb., per yd. New York
Rosin (12) Gum, window glass grade, car lots, per 100 lb. New York
Rubber (13) Crude, natural, No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets, per lb. New York
Soybean Oil (BO) Crude, per lb. Central Illinois
Steel Scrap (57) No. 1 heavy melting, (dealer), consumers' buying price, including brokerage, delivered, per gross ton. Chicago
Steers (LC) Choice, 900-1100 lbs., per 100 lb. Tex. / Okla.
Sugar (17) Raw, 96°, duty paid, per 100 lb. New York
Tallow (18) Packers' prime, inedible, per lb. Chicago
Tin (54) Grade A, spot delivery, per lb. New York
Wheat (MW) No. 1 Dark Northern Spring 14%, per bu. Minneapolis
Wheat (KW) No. 2 Hard Red Winter, per bu. Kansas City
Wool tops (22) Certified spot price, domestic 64's, nominal, per lb. Boston
Zinc (23) Slab, Prime Western, for prompt delivery, delivered, (f.o.b. New York equivalent), per lb. New York

* Effective January 2, 2003, the following component changes were made:

  • Copper, electrolytic cathodes, was replaced with Copper, scrap #2 wire.
    Indexes affected: Spot Index, Metals and Raw Industrials.
  • Zinc, prime western, was replaced with Zinc, special high grade.
    Indexes affected: Spot Index, Metals and Raw Industrials.

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