Australian economy
Rates, prices, labour, trade and petroleum from ABS, RBA and DCCEEW — plus the world commodity prices and US rates the Australian market actually trades against, from the World Bank and FRED.
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Macro
Monetary policy, consumer prices and the labour market.
RBA cash rate target
Monthly · per cent
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia, F1.1 · CC BY 4.0
Consumer price index
All groups, quarterly · index
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Consumer Price Index · CC BY 4.0
Unemployment rate — Australia
Monthly, seasonally adjusted · per cent
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force · CC BY 4.0
AUD/USD exchange rate
Daily · US dollars per AUD
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia, F11 · CC BY 4.0
Trade
National goods exports and imports — per-state trade lives in the map above.
National goods exports
Monthly · A$
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, International Trade in Goods · CC BY 4.0
National goods imports
Monthly · A$
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, International Trade in Goods · CC BY 4.0
Energy & petroleum
Refinery output, fuel imports and national fuel sales, in megalitres.
Refinery output — diesel
Monthly · megalitres
Source: DCCEEW, Australian Petroleum Statistics · CC BY 4.0
Refinery output — petrol
Automotive gasoline, monthly · megalitres
Source: DCCEEW, Australian Petroleum Statistics · CC BY 4.0
Refinery output — jet fuel
Aviation turbine fuel, monthly · megalitres
Source: DCCEEW, Australian Petroleum Statistics · CC BY 4.0
Diesel imports
Monthly · megalitres — Australia imports most of its diesel
Source: DCCEEW, Australian Petroleum Statistics · CC BY 4.0
National diesel sales
Monthly · megalitres
Source: DCCEEW, Australian Petroleum Statistics · CC BY 4.0
Refinery input
Total refinery intake, monthly · megalitres
Source: DCCEEW, Australian Petroleum Statistics · CC BY 4.0
Energy — world prices
Crude and gas. Gas does not arbitrage across oceans, so the three regional prices diverge by multiples and the spread between them is the Australian LNG export story.
Brent crude
Month-end · USD per barrel
Source: US Energy Information Administration via FRED · US government, public domain
WTI crude
Cushing, Oklahoma · month-end · USD per barrel
Source: US Energy Information Administration via FRED · US government, public domain
LNG landed Japan
Monthly · USD per mmbtu
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Natural gas — Europe
Monthly · USD per mmbtu · the marginal buyer for spot LNG cargoes
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Natural gas — United States
Henry Hub · monthly · USD per mmbtu
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Thermal coal — Newcastle
Monthly · USD per tonne · the Australian benchmark
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Thermal coal — Richards Bay
Monthly · USD per tonne · the competing benchmark; the spread is the producer's margin
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Metals — world prices
What the ASX digs up: bulk, base and precious. Distinct from the RBA's commodity price indices above — an index of bulk prices is not a tonne of iron ore.
Iron ore
cfr spot, China import · monthly · USD per dmtu
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Gold
Monthly · USD per troy ounce
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Silver
Monthly · USD per troy ounce
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Platinum
Monthly · USD per troy ounce
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Copper
LME · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Aluminium
LME · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Nickel
LME · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Zinc
LME · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Lead
LME · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Tin
LME · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Agriculture & fertiliser — world prices
Grain, fibre, sugar and beef, plus the fertiliser prices that set an input cost rather than a mined volume.
Wheat
US hard red winter, fob Gulf · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Beef
Australian and New Zealand, cif US · monthly · USD per kg
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Sugar
Raw, world price · monthly · USD per kg
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Cotton
Cotlook A index · monthly · USD per kg
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Urea
Granular, fob · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Diammonium phosphate
fob · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Phosphate rock
fob · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
Potassium chloride
Muriate of potash, fob · monthly · USD per tonne
Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet) · CC BY 4.0
US rates
The Treasury curve and the two spreads that carry most of the signal — 10y−2y, and the 10-year breakeven.
Federal funds effective rate
Monthly average · per cent · the US counterpart to the RBA cash rate
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US 3-month Treasury yield
Constant maturity · month-end · per cent
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US 2-year Treasury yield
Constant maturity · month-end · per cent
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US 10-year Treasury yield
Constant maturity · month-end · per cent
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US 30-year Treasury yield
Constant maturity · month-end · per cent
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US yield curve — 10y minus 2y
Month-end · percentage points · below zero is an inverted curve
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US 10-year breakeven inflation
Nominal minus TIPS · month-end · per cent
Source: Federal Reserve H.15 via FRED · US government, public domain
US macro & money
Prices, jobs, output and the money stock. The global risk backdrop the domestic indicators cannot show.
US consumer price index
All items, seasonally adjusted · monthly · 1982-84 = 100
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED · US government, public domain
US unemployment rate
Seasonally adjusted · monthly · per cent
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED · US government, public domain
US industrial production
Total index, seasonally adjusted · monthly · 2017 = 100
Source: Federal Reserve G.17 via FRED · US government, public domain
US M2 money stock
Seasonally adjusted · monthly · USD billions
Source: Federal Reserve H.6 via FRED · US government, public domain
Federal Reserve total assets
Month-end · USD millions
Source: Federal Reserve H.4.1 via FRED · US government, public domain
China
The largest gap in this catalog for an ASX platform, and the hardest to fill — China's own agencies are not on FRED, so this is OECD's compilation.
China merchandise exports
To the world, seasonally adjusted · monthly · USD — the demand side of the iron ore and coal prices above
Source: OECD, accessed via FRED (data-explorer.oecd.org) · OECD terms — attribution required
China real effective exchange rate
CPI-based · monthly · 2015 = 100
Source: OECD, accessed via FRED (data-explorer.oecd.org) · OECD terms — attribution required
Currencies
Pairs the RBA does not publish. Each product name states the direction, because the H.10 release does not quote every pair the same way round.
US dollar index — broad
Nominal, Jan 2006 = 100 · month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
Chinese yuan per US dollar
Month-end · China takes the bulk of Australian iron ore
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
Japanese yen per US dollar
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
South Korean won per US dollar
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
Indian rupees per US dollar
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
Singapore dollars per US dollar
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
Canadian dollars per US dollar
Month-end · the other resources-heavy G10 currency
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
US dollars per euro
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
US dollars per pound sterling
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
US dollars per New Zealand dollar
Month-end
Source: Federal Reserve H.10 via FRED · US government, public domain
Australian sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics (Consumer Price Index, Labour Force, International Trade in Goods, National Accounts), Reserve Bank of Australia (F1.1, F11) and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (Australian Petroleum Statistics) — all CC BY 4.0. World commodity prices are the World Bank Commodity Markets “Pink Sheet”, CC BY 4.0. US rates, prices and exchange rates come from FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), sourced from the Federal Reserve, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Energy Information Administration — US government works in the public domain. The two China series are OECD, accessed via FRED, redistributed under OECD terms with attribution. Latest months may be preliminary. Not financial advice.