Macrobond is pleased to announce that our database has been expanded with the Oil World Database from JODI (Joint Organizations Data Initiative), JODI Oil for short.

JODI Oil is a concrete outcome of the producer-consumer energy dialogue. The importance of exchanging data as a means to enhance transparency of global energy commodity markets is recognized by IEF Energy Ministers as being beneficial to energy security and in the interest of producers and consumers alike. JODI Oil provides reliable, harmonized, freely accessible and comprehensive statistics unlike any other in the world. Through the use of nationally sanctioned data, which can be difficult if not impossible to access through alternative avenues, JODI offers global coverage of consumption, production, import/export and stock levels for crude oil and petroleum products on a monthly basis.

JODI Oil consists of data from more than 90 countries or regions and the members of the six pioneer organizations (APEC, EUROSTAT, IEA, OLADE, OPEC and UNSD) that participate represent over 90% of global oil supply and demand. For more information about JODI please visit http://www.jodidata.org

The database consists of:

• Ten product categories: Crude Oil, NGL, LPG, Naphtha, Gasoline, Kerosene, Kerosene Type Jet Fuel, Diesel Oil, Fuel Oil and Total Oil
• Seven flows: Production, Demand, Refinery Intake, Imports, Exports and Closing Stock Levels
• Data in three different units: barrels, barrels per day and tons
• Data for more than 90 participating countries
• Data from January 2002

The series have been integrated in the existing Tree structure for each country under for instance Foreign Trade or Stock Levels/Inventories. It is also available in: Economics - by source > JODI (Joint Organizations Data Initiative).

Macrobond is pleased to announce the opening of its new sales and support office in London. In order to cater to a growing client base in the UK and Ireland, we have now opened an office in central London to provide faster, more responsive support to existing clients and to continue to reach out to new clients.

Our new office is based at:

2nd Floor,
9 Savoy Street,
London WC2E 7EG

We welcome you to contact us on our new UK-based support line, as an alternative to the current Swedish support number for any support or sales related queries.

Telephone: +44 (0) 207 836 9474

Macrobond is happy to announce that the existing coverage of data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been expanded to include the Traders in Financial Futures (TFF) report. The TFF report builds on improvements to transparency that disaggregated data in the CFTC’s weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) reports. The new report separates large traders in the financial markets into the following four categories:

• Dealer/Intermediary
• Asset Manager/Institutional
• Leveraged Funds
• Other Reportables

The legacy COT report separates reportable traders only into “commercial” and “noncommercial” categories. The TFF report, like the COT reports, provides a breakdown of each Tuesday's open interest for markets in which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC. The TFF report is published in futures-only and futures-and-options-combined formats and it is available side-by-side with the legacy COT in the Tree View.

The TFF report divides the financial futures market participants into the “sell-side” and “buy-side”. This traditional functional division of financial market participants focuses on their respective roles in the broader marketplace, not whether they are buyers or sellers of futures/option contracts. The category called “Dealer/Intermediary”, for instance, represents sell-side participants. Typically, these are dealers and intermediaries that earn commissions on selling financial products, capturing bid/offer spreads and otherwise accommodating clients. The remaining three categories represent the buy-side participants. These are essentially clients of the sell-side participants who use the markets to invest, hedge, manage risk, speculate or change the term structure or duration of their assets.