Platts Services Over Thomson Reuters Eikon

USER GUIDE
Table of Contents
Whether you are catching the price move, negotiating a
contract or keeping on top of market making news, Platts &
Thomson Reuters meet your demands for a respected price,
data & news information service.
Platts Alert Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Platts Newswires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Platts Price Assessments & Market Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
How to Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Platts Speed Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
News Commentary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Platts Market On Close (MOC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Platts Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Viewing Platts data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Viewing quotes and graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Data available in Excel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Contact Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Platts Alert Services
Platts Alert Services Include:
Platts Global Alert
The complete real-time information service for the global petroleum industry, Platts
Global Alert provides breaking news, market analysis and price assessments as they
are reported. Also available are additional sector specic information services covering
bunkers, tankers, feedstocks and LPG. PGA includes all bids, offers and trades reported
in the Platts Market on Close assessment process.
Platts Petrochemical Alert
Platts Petrochemical Alert gives you real-time global pricing and market intelligence.
From news ashes, to long-range analysis, to real-time deal reporting, to end-of-day
price assessments, Platts Petrochemical Alert is consistently rst with breaking news
that moves the worlds petrochemicals markets.
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Platts Forward Curve Oil
Platts Forward Curve Oil provides independent and comprehensive
derivatives assessments based on actual transactions, bids and offers
for the North American, European and Asian markets. Mathematically
derived Follow-the-Sun oil forward curves are an additional purchase
for customers who subscribe to three PFC-Oil trading regions.
Platts European Power Alert
Platts European Power Alert brings you and your company the most
independent, up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the European
power, gas and emissions industry from news and commentary
to updates on industry developments, price assessments and other
factors affecting prices, such as cross-fuel comparisons and weather
conditions. Also available are add-on services covering global coal, spot
and forward prices, and global emissions.
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Platts Alert Services
Platts Electricity Alert
Platts Electricity Alert provides real-time news, daily indexes and market commentary
on the North American electric power industry to those who dont want to wait until
tomorrow for todays critical price and market data.
Platts Natural Gas Alert
To track a market as volatile as natural gas, you can rely on Platts Natural Gas Alert to
help you stay on top of critical events in North America. You can monitor futures trading,
watch the days cash market and keep abreast of deal-critical news and fundamentals
throughout the trading day.
Platts Marine Alert
Platts Marine Alert provides real-time news, pricing and market intelligence for the bunker
and tanker markets worldwide, so you can track industry movements and make informed
decisions. Platts Marine Alert offers a service tailored for ship owners, tanker charterers,
brokers and traders.
Platts Metals Alert
Platts Metals Alert is the metal and steel industrys leading real-time news and price
service. The service contains Platts and legacy SBB (Steel Business Brieng) assessments,
as well as expanded metals data from a variety of third-party sources. With Metals Alert,
youll receive instant breaking news and transparent pricing for the full spectrum of
nonferrous metals, precious metals, iron ore, steel and ferroalloys.
Platts Biofuels Alert
Platts Biofuels Alert is a real-time service providing breaking news
and the latest biofuels price assessments for ethanol, ethanol swaps,
biodiesel, RINs, MTBE and ETBE. The service provides global industry
professionals with the real-time insight to stay on top of the markets.
It includes critical up-to-the-minute pricing updates, end-of-day
price assessments, essential news, in-depth analysis and expert
commentary.
Platts-ICE Forward Curve Natural Gas & Electricity
Platts-ICE Forward Curve provides a comprehensive and independent
view of forward pricing for the North American electricity market
and the North American gas market. It provides you with a complete
and independently-derived set of curves tailored to meet the growing
risk management needs of the trading community. This product
combines the data gathering power and expertise of both Platts and
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE).
Thomson Reuters carries Platts real-time,
intraday, end-of-day and historical
information services.
Platts Newswires
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Platts European Marketscan
This tool is used by all the major players in the oil market and provides trusted, reliable
and comprehensive coverage, including benchmark price assessments, of all European
rened oil product markets. It also provides daily reporting of trading activity, pricing,
expert analysis and market commentary.
Platts Asia Pacic/Arab Gulf Marketscan (APAG)
First published in 1981, APAG is the regions longest running oil daily report. The source
of Asias benchmarks for rened products, it reports on rened product assessments and
provides comprehensive market commentary, plus much more invaluable intelligence.
Platts US Marketscan
Platts US Marketscan provides you with a daily market overview of the major rened
products in the United States. It carries spot prices for all key products traded in the US
market. Gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel, residual fuel and naphtha prices are listed for the
Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Group 3, Chicago and West Coast markets.
Platts Crude Oil Marketwire
Platts Crude Oil Marketwire provides critical market information including; crude oil
price spreads, trade updates, industry ofcials commentary futures settlement prices,
and much more to keep you totally up to speed with the latest developments.
Platts daily newswires are available over Thomson Reuters Eikon. These daily newswires contain
market commentary relating to activity in the marketplace and include end-of-day price assessments
corresponding to the commodity sector. Visit www.platts.com for our full list of newswires.
Platts Newswires
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Platts LP Gaswire
Platts LP Gaswire reports every business day on emerging market trends, pricing,
and market news for ethane, iso-butane, natural gasoline, normal butane, and
propane.
Platts Clean Tankerwire
Platts Clean Tankerwire provides you with the latest tanker freight and xture
rates giving you the full picture and enabling you to effectively analyse the
tanker market.
Platts Dirty Tankerwire
Platts Dirty Tankerwire delivers the most important developments in the dirty
tanker market, daily, direct to your desktop. Plus, with a new and improved
format, its now a faster read with more direct access to key market content at
your ngertips.
Platts Oil Arbitrage Wire (from April 1st, will be known as North
American Crude and Rened Products Scan)
Daily US and Canadian crude oil spot assessments, rener feedstock
and blendstock prices along with the most up-to-date news and
market analysis on the markets
Platts Bunkerwire
Platts Bunkerwire focuses on marine fuel prices and supply in
major ports world-wide, including price assessments detailing
intermediate fuel oil, marine diesel and marine gasoil, selected
news items covering whats moving the market, and spot market
commentary.
Platts Biofuelscan
Platts Biofuelscan is a daily market report that provides you with
the latest price assessments, supporting market commentary, news
and analysis for the ethanol, biodiesel, ETBE and RINS markets in
Europe, Asia and the Americas. The report also contains ethanol
production forecast data on a weekly basis.
Platts benchmark price assessments are widely used throughout the energy and
metals supply chain. From producer to consumer, risk manager to analyst, our
12,500+ daily prices and forward curves ensure nancial institutions, energy,
metals and mining companies, and governments are competitively pricing their
energy transactions. This highly respected data is essential market intelligence for
industry professionals who need unbiased benchmark price assessments for short
and long-term action and analysis. We also provide archived, high-quality price
data going back many decades to give you a retrospective view of market trends.
Manage Your Exposure
*
Our price data helps you reduce market risk when making important trading
decisions, valuing positions and analyzing data.
Mark Your Books
*
Platts assessments cover thousands of prices providing transparency for global
energy markets.
Reduce Operational Risk
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Set up automated feeds to ensure your trading analysis and settlements are
powered by the same information across the whole organization.
Find Your Next Opportunity
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Historical data, available at an additional cost, gives you high-quality numbers
to fuel your nancial models, business reports and future plans. We provide
archived historical price data going back many years, even decades, to give you a
retrospective view of the market.
Platts benchmark price assessments are available in real-time as prices are
published, Platts Real-Time Data Add-on, or as an end-of-day service, Platts
Market Data.
Platts Real-Time Data Add-on is an add-on service requiring a subscription
to the corresponding alert service. With Platts Real-Time Data Add-on you
have access to the full historical database for that particular alert service. As
an example, PGA Data Add-on provides the historical data for Platts Global
Alert.
Platts Market Data service has exible packaging options as well as
individual data categories that have pre-bundled symbols. With Platts
Market Data, you get access to hundreds of categories of data, containing
thousands of prices, enabling you to choose the commodity data category
that is most useful to you. This services provides you with our end-of-day
price assessments, corrections, and a historical database.
Platts covers assessments accross the following market sectors:
Metals
Agriculture
Forward Curves, Volatilities and Correlations
Oil & Rened Products
Petrochemicals
Platts Price Assessments & Market Data
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* Platts makes no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained by market
participants who elect to use Platts prices and indices as the basis for transactions.
Coal
Shipping
Natural Gas
Electricity
How to Get Started
Log in to the Thomson Reuters portal using the secure URL:
Customised Page Example
> Click on top left orange icon for applications and options.
> Under File select new ex document to customize your
individualized display environment.
> A pre-build display environment created for Platts content is
also made available as an option a user could select on the right
hand side of the screen labelled Platts.
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Platts Speed Guide
Platts Speed Guide can be used to nd all the energy
and commodity markets that Platts covers.
Platts speed guide can be accessible in any quote
screen object by inputting PLATTS in the top left input
area. Press F4 for a pop-up oater screen for easy
immediate access. Double click within any < > or [ ] to
further narrow down your search.
News Commentary
Viewing Platts News
By navigating the Platts speedguides a user will be
able to nd the News code associated Platts News,
automated press releases and trader notes. These
codes could be placed in a news object within the
Eikon environment in a customized environment to
track the latest Platts news, press releases and trader
notes. For quick access, users could bring up a pop-up
news object by pressing the F9 key.
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Platts MOC assessment process is used to determine reliable
price assessments in the global commodity markets. This
process is a robust and structured system of information
gathering to ensure that data used in the assessment process
is of the highest quality. Platts observes market activity
throughout the trading day, but pays particular attention to
activity in a dened period of time towards the close that
has become known as the Platts window, where market
participants bids, offers and transactions are reported in real
time and with full transparency.
Historical data allows PowerPlus Pro to create charts and
matrix lists. The functionality for using both real-time data
and end-of-day data are depicted here.
Platts Real-Time Data Add On
All Platts price assessment historical alert packages could be
located via the 0#PLATTSC menu in any quote screen in Eikon
(press F4 for a oater quote screen or embed a quote screen
directly in the Eikon display environment). At the rst level
it is divided by commodity type with further breakdowns that
utilizes the 2 letter market category codes. Simple double
click directly on the codes started by 0# to further drill down
to the data of interest.
Platts Market On Close (MOC)
Platts Data
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For more information on how Platts MOC works
plase visit www.platts.com
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Platts Market Data
Platts Market Data is sold at the market data category level, represented by
2 or 3 letter codes. Thomson Reuters has therefore created the Platts market
data menu based on the market data category. By typing in D-PLATTSMKTDATA
in the top left input area of any quote screen in Eikon, a list of all Market Data
categories currently available on Eikon will be listed. As long as the user is
subscribed to a specic market data category, all the price assessments in that
category will appear when double left clicking on the <>.
The Platts Market Data service is also available at RIC 0#PLATTSD and can be
easily exported into Microsoft Excel and other charting applications.
A user can access specic price assessments by typing in D- followed by the
Platts symbol e.g. D-PCAAT00 which is the Dubai Front Month housed in market
data category RI. Users can also drill down into specic assessments using the
menu option outlined above and a real-time data Platts subscriber can access
the same data without the prex D e.g. PCAATOO. These options provide
exibility depending on the Platts package the user subscribes to.
Viewing Platts data
Creating a quote list
The Quotelist is recommended for the tracking of multiple Platts and other
nancial instruments in a list view. Simply select Add Quote List and a
Quotelist object will be embedded in the Eikon display environment. The
Quotelist object allows the user to select the specic elds that they might
be interested in. There is already a Platts template pre-built into Eikon that is
recommended for Platts content. Simply go to Templates in the top right of the
Quotelist object, go to Commodities in the drop down menu and select Platts.
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Viewing quotes and graphs
In both quotelist and quote object a user can conveniently bring
up a chart to see the historical of a price assessment by right
clicking for a drop down menu, select Related and pick Chart
from the numerous options available. Alternatively, if clients
already have the assessment of their choice in the quote screen;
they would simply press F10 for a related chart object.
Within Eikon charts, over 100 different types of technical
analysis are available for the clients to use in conjunction with
the Platts assessments. Furthermore, users will be able to
overlay multiple nancial instruments on the same chart for the
analysis purposes.
Many spot on adjustments is available in the chart, for
example to change a line chart to Bar Open High low chart is
accomplished by clicking directly on the text line directly on
the legend of the chart and a drop down will appear providing
different display options.
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Data available in Excel
Eikon Excel is a tool clients could use to dynamical link live updating
Platts Price assessments and Platt Market Data in the Excel
environment. There are numerous functions available to retrieve
historical data and live data that updates automatically whenever
the spreadsheet is open. Please contact your Thomson Reuters
representative if you are interested in the functionalities that are
available on Eikon Excel.
Contact Details
To nd out more about accessing Platts information through Thomson Reuters please contact us on:
Within the Eikon product a Contact Us option is also available.
Thomson Reuters Customer Support:
1 800 738 8377
For Training:
Call or email us to schedule training or nd out more about
the options available to you. Thomson Reuters Training will
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