Christopher J. Lown

Founded in 1934 by Milton Jiler and Bill Jiler, Commodity Research Bureau is a commodities and futures research, data and analysis firm located in Chicago. The firm is a subsidiary of Barchart.com, Inc. CRB provides information on the futures markets through a variety of data products, email and print publications, fundamental services and business-to-business products. They also manage the CRB Price Index, a global benchmark for measuring commodity price movement. The firm maintains a comprehensive database of the entire commodity markets' price history. Subscribers can also obtain Final Markets end-of-day price data, daily Futures Market Service commentary, CRB TrendTrader and daily news summaries through the online CRB DataCenter.