Methodology

Symbol Search & Directories

S&P Global Commodity Insights symbol directories list our time-series price codes and related descriptive information grouped by commodity and data category, updated once every two weeks. Page directories provide a page guide to our real-time news and alert services.

Visit our code announcements page for any new symbols added in the interim. You can also view our M2MS Market Data Symbol Logic Specification.

Access direction on how to use Platts symbols directories, if you're unable to download a file, you can request it via email. Please include which directory you would like sent to you.




Using the box above you can search for details and description information up to five Platts Symbols at a time. Enter the symbols separated by comma. An error message will be displayed for any symbol not recognized. Unrecognized symbols might be due to a type as both active and discontinued symbols are available in our database.


Symbol Directories

Last Updated: March 2024


Page Directories

Platts offers the following directories: