Data sources
Every number on ProcureIndex is traceable to a government statistical agency or central bank. No proprietary black boxes, no unattributed estimates, no survey aggregates we can't explain.
The promise
- Every index shows its source agency as a colored badge, visible on the catalog card and detail page.
- Every index shows a freshness indicator — green if updated within expected cadence, amber if 1-3 cycles late, red if more than three cycles late.
- Every detail page has a “View on [source]” link that takes you to the original series on the agency's own site.
- We do not edit, smooth, or re-weight published observations. What you see is what the agency published.
Sources we aggregate
Freshness
The green / amber / red dot next to each index is computed from the latest observation date and the series' publication cadence:
- Fresh — updated within 1.5× the expected cadence
- Stale — 1-3× expected cadence late
- Old — more than 3× expected cadence late
Source agencies publish on different schedules (FRED dailies update overnight; Eurostat monthly PPI lags by ~45 days by design). The dot reflects “late vs the agency's schedule,” not “late vs now.”
Featured on procure.blog
The same data powers deep-dive analysis pages on our sister site procure.blog. Each one pulls the history from the agencies above and frames it for procurement teams.
- Brent crude oil price analysis — sourced from FRED
- WTI crude oil price analysis — sourced from FRED
- Henry Hub natural gas price analysis — sourced from FRED
- US regular gasoline price analysis — sourced from FRED
- US No. 2 diesel fuel price analysis — sourced from FRED
- LME copper price analysis — sourced from FRED
- LME aluminum price analysis — sourced from FRED
- LME nickel price analysis — sourced from FRED
- Lithium carbonate price analysis — sourced from IMF PCPS
- Global metals price index analysis — sourced from IMF
What we don't do
- We don't sell proprietary forecasts disguised as “market data.”
- We don't ask for a credit card, gate your trial, or auto-charge after a demo.
- We don't track users for ad retargeting.
If a series ever looks wrong to you, click “View on [source]” from its detail page — you'll see the same observation on the agency's own site.