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Site offers free commodity charts and intraday commodity quotes.

Regulates commodity futures and option markets in the United States. Site includes market reports & financial data, as well as legal/regulatory info.

FAOSTAT offers detailed international time series data on agricultural, forestry, and fishery commodities. Includes statistics on production, production indices, trade, trade indices, commodity balances, food supply, food balances, producer prices, exports of cereals, and more. Statistics can be displayed in dynamic tables or downloaded.

"The Monthly Energy Review (MER) is the Energy Information Administration’s primary report of recent energy statistics. Included are total energy production, consumption, and trade; energy prices; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and international petroleum; and data unit conversions."

The Foreign Agricultural Service's Production, Supply and Distribution (PS&D) online database "contains current and historical official USDA data on production, supply and distribution of agricultural commodities for the United States and key producing and consuming countries. Users may select from a menu of pre-defined tables categorized by commodity or commodity group (see Pre-defined Tables) or create custom queries for specific commodities, attributes and/or countries (see Custom Query tab)." Datafiles can be displayed or downloaded.

Entries for each commodity (aluminum to currencies to milk to zinc) include an overview of the commodity with history, where it is traded, prices, supply, demand, and trade information. This is followed by statistical tables covering topics such as production, consumption, prices, import/export, stocks, trading volume, open interest, spread, recycling, or other relevant statistics. Also, general market trends and commodity indexes.
Subscription cancelled latest available is 2008 - backgound info may still be useful.