Data
Sources & licences
Every figure VerityX shows comes from a source that permits this use, and carries its period and attribution. Reference averages are refreshed monthly by an automated job and committed to the code, so every change to a price has a public history. Last refresh 2026-11-08.
Prices
Copper price
World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Cadence: Monthly average · latest Oct 2026 avg: 14,508 USD/t
A monthly average, not a spot price.
Aluminium price
World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet)
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Cadence: Monthly average · latest Oct 2026 avg: 3,061 USD/t
A monthly average, not a spot price.
NdPr oxide price
U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
Licence: Public domain (U.S. Government work)
Cadence: Annual average · latest 2025 avg (est.): 69 USD/kg
Context only. Rare-earth prices move far within a year and differ inside and outside China; a verdict needs your own licensed benchmark.
Dy oxide price
U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
Licence: Public domain (U.S. Government work)
Cadence: Annual average · latest 2025 avg (est.): 239 USD/kg
Context only. Rare-earth prices move far within a year and differ inside and outside China; a verdict needs your own licensed benchmark.
EUR/USD exchange rate
European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates
Licence: Free reuse, commercial included, crediting “Source: ECB statistics.” and without modifying the figures
Cadence: Daily, each TARGET business day
Shown as published (EUR 1 = x USD). USD→EUR is derived only inside calculations.
Supplier screening and context
Legal-entity identity (LEI)
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Cadence: Queried live per check
Name match is fuzzy; the buyer confirms the exact legal entity.
Sanctions screen
UN Security Council Consolidated List
Licence: Public UN document
Cadence: Downloaded live, cached
Whole-word name match. A possible match is a prompt for human review, never an automatic finding.
EU public tenders
Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), Publications Office of the EU
Licence: Commission reuse policy: reuse permitted with acknowledgement (© European Union)
Cadence: Queried live
Context on public demand only.
Media-risk headlines
The GDELT Project, DOC 2.0 API
Licence: Free for commercial use with citation and a link to gdeltproject.org; publishers keep rights in their headlines
Cadence: Queried live, cached 15 minutes
Only headline, outlet and link are shown; article text is never fetched or stored. A headline is a prompt for review, not a finding.
What VerityX does not use
- Argus Media, Fastmarkets, Shanghai Metals Market and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence price assessments — not subscribed and never displayed. Enter your own subscription’s price as your benchmark on a check; you hold that licence.
- LME prices and settlement data — not licensed; copper and aluminium are World Bank monthly averages instead.
- Stock-market prices — not used for any price, index or score.
- OpenSanctions — commercial use requires a paid data licence; not queried.
- Credit ratings (e.g. RapidRatings, D&B) — not used. The financial-health signal is VerityX’s own disclosure heuristic and says so.
Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0. Monthly averages, nominal USD. Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. Annual average; latest year is a USGS estimate. Source: ECB statistics. VerityX is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any source listed here.