The Board
One board — the paper, the market, the road.
The benchmarks the desk watches — fertilizer, sugar, gold and the tradable commodities of the house — read the house way: the morning paper first, the live numbers as they move, and the road beside every price. Orientation for buyers; the firm number always travels by LOI.
Morning · SANDOOK NEWS
The Morning Board — the house’s daily paper
Latest edition · Monday, 2 November 2026
Crude Tumbles as Talks Take the Edge Off
Oil gave back a large part of October's gain on Monday, with WTI down 6.368% and Brent down 6.021% on the house feed. Grains were nearly flat and sugar eased, while gold stood firm as the week opened with diplomacy in focus ahead of Tuesday's US midterms.
Orientation only — firm prices by LOI.
Earlier this week on the paper
Inside today’s board
ENERGY
WTI stands at $97.49, down 6.368%, and Brent at $106.60, down 6.021%, with heating oil at $4.4739, down 4.3242%, while natural…
GRAINS & OILS
A calm open for the field: wheat at 604.5, up 0.166%, corn at 449, up 0.279%, soybeans at 1230, down 0.344%, and soybean oil at…
SUGAR
Raw sugar eased to 19.08, down 1.446% on the day. In India, market reports described crushing stalled in parts of Maharashtra…
MONEY
Gold stands at $3,941.90 an ounce and silver at $50.842. On the board, the S&P 500 stands at 7580.07, down 1.818%, the Nasdaq at…
THE WEEK AHEAD
The week turns on Tuesday's US midterm elections on 3 November and the US jobs report on Friday 6 November, with the next OPEC+…
The desks · desk notes
Five sections, one board
Energy
Crude, gas and the fuels of the road — and the freight that moves every cargo the house carries.
Grains & Oils
Wheat, corn and the soy complex — the fields, the crush, and the oils that reach the shelf.
Sugar
Raw sugar on the world board, and the cane country behind the number.
Money
Gold, the dollar and the world's indices — what a cargo is worth before it sails.
The Week Ahead
Fertilizer, the tender calendar and the week's events — mapped before they land.
Market · the live board
The live board
Money and metals, as they move.
The board is waking — the first figures land in a moment
The board at a glance
The board is waking…
Brent crude
Gold
USD → Rupee
Ranked by the day’s move
LiveEvery instrument, ranked by the day’s move — it reshuffles as prices land
The board is waking — the ranking settles as the first prices land.
Market mood
LiveThe whole board, on one needle
Waking
The board is waking — the needle settles in a moment.
Crypto
Live · streamingSpot · every trade, as it happens
Bitcoin · USD per BTC
Ethereum
Solana
XRP
Dogecoin
Cardano
Metals
Live · 10sSpot, per troy ounce
Gold · USD per troy oz
Silver
Platinum
Palladium
Exchange rates
DailyPer 1 US dollar · free daily feed
The house trades in all of these — rates are the published daily reference; the firm price on any deal is issued against LOI.
Energy & fuel
Futures · 60sNear-month futures · exchange-delayed
WTI Crude Oil
USD per barrel
Brent Crude
USD per barrel
Natural Gas
USD per MMBtu
Heating Oil
USD per gallon · the diesel proxy
The Fields
Futures · 60sThe crops behind the cargo · exchange-delayed
Soybeans
USD per bushel
Soybean Oil
USD per pound
Wheat
USD per bushel
Corn
USD per bushel
What a load is worth today
LiveEvery cargo the house carries — priced live where a feed exists, at the desk’s assessed FOB by area where it doesn’t. The cargo only, before freight and the firm LOI price.
25 MT≈ 1 × 40 ft containers
CBOT futures — assessed by the desk against a requirement
Currency converter
Any currency → any currencyIndicative, on the same published daily reference as the board
INR
Waiting for the daily rates…
World indices
Futures feed · 60sThe floors the house’s roads run between · via Yahoo Finance · exchange-delayed
S&P 500 · New York
Nasdaq · New York
TSX Composite · Toronto
Nifty 50 · Mumbai
Sensex · Mumbai
FTSE 100 · London
Two instruments, against the day
Both lines start level at the open; the leader rides in gold
Waiting for the day’s curves…
The benchmarks the desk watches
Fertilizer and iron ore trade on assessed benchmarks — there is no free public live feed for them, and this board will not invent one. The desk prices against the assessments the trade itself uses:
Assessments refresh weekly from the price-reporting houses; a firm price on any lane is issued against a Letter of Intent.
Fertilizer & commodity assessments
The desk’s stated benchmarks
Read the desk’s figures in
Urea Granular 46%
FOB Middle East
On the desk’s Morning Board
Urea Prilled
FOB Baltic
On the desk’s Morning Board
DAP 18-46-0
FOB US Gulf
On the desk’s Morning Board
MAP 11-52-0
FOB Baltic
On the desk’s Morning Board
MOP 60% K₂O
FOB Baltic
On the desk’s Morning Board
NPK 15-15-15
FOB China
On the desk’s Morning Board
Ammonium Sulphate 21% N
FOB China
On the desk’s Morning Board
Refined Sugar ICUMSA 45
FOB Brazil
US$600–615 / MT
Desk benchmark, Oct 2026
Gold Spot
XAU / USD
On the desk’s Morning Board
The board states its figures in US dollars. Shown in another currency, they are converted at the published daily reference— the same reference as the board’s exchange-rates tile. Indicative benchmarks for orientation only — markets move, and the board is a compass, not a quote. Firm prices are issued from the house desk against a Letter of Intent.
The Calculator
What a load is worth today
Every cargo the house carries, priced from this board — live where a feed exists, desk-assessed where it doesn’t.
Open the calculator →The Requirement Desk
State a requirement
Tonnage, schedule, destination — the desk answers with the firm figure for your road, program cargo included.
To the Requirement Desk →The Letter of Intent
Put it on an LOI
The firm number travels by LOI — the board orients, the LOI commits the house to a price.
Submit an LOI →Beside every price, the road it travels.
By Sea
Container and bulk lanes on CIF / CFR terms — the house’s standard road. Freight is quoted with the price, port to port, documents carried with the cargo.
By Air
For urgent and high-value cargo, the house moves it by air. Air freight is quoted beside the sea rate wherever the timeline demands it.
The route lens
The house’s lanes, road by road
Every lane the desk watches starts on a road. Choose the road and its lanes stand together — the same register the Market face reads, seen from the freight side.
FOB Middle East
1 lane on this road
Urea Granular 46%
On the desk's Morning Board
The Morning Board, by email
The desk writes its note every morning — the fertilizer specifications, sugar, gold and the day’s freight, read the way the desk reads them. Leave a work email and the Morning Board will be sent to you.
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