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Energy Department Posts Commodity Price Information

U.S. Energy Information Administration gathers much useful data on one, free-to-the-public webpage.

By Rich Smith – Feb 7, 2013 at 8:36PM EST

On Thursday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that it has opened up a new web page on which it will post a set of key energy commodity spot and futures prices for easy reference by investors. The page, titled "Today in Energy," contains such data points as:

  • Wholesale petroleum prices for such products as crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, diesel, and propane
  • Average retail petroleum prices for gasoline and diesel across the U.S.
  • Futures prices for the coming month for similar commodities -- crude, gas, heating oil, natural gas, coal, and ethanol
  • "Spot" natural gas and electricity prices for various regions of the country -- New England, the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest, as well as for specific locales important to the energy markets, such as New York City, Louisiana, and Houston

EIA says it will be updating these data points each weekday, "typically' between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m.

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Rich Smith
Rich Smith is a contributing Motley Fool defense and stock market analyst covering publicly traded and emerging companies in defense, space, aerospace, and other sectors. Prior to The Motley Fool, Rich practiced international corporate law for Clifford Chance in Russia, and for the Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group in Moscow, Kyiv, and Washington, D.C. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the College of William & Mary, a law degree from the University of Baltimore, and a language certification from the International Institute of Russian Language & Culture in Tver, Russian Federation. The Globe and Mail once featured him as “one of the best stock pickers since 2009.”
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