$ shortage commodity get LIV.CATL > spot: 212c/lb > stress_index: 0.60 WATCH > updated 14:30 UTC
BRENT $72.13/b ● TTF €44.25/MWh ● OPEC_ORB n/a SPR_US 331.2 Mb ▼ FAO_FFPI 130.8 ▼
Live cattle (CME). A multi-decade-low US herd keeps the beef complex historically tight.
Live Cattle (LIV.CATL) is a livestock commodity tracked by shortage.life with a live spot of 212c/lb and a v3.2 stress index of 0.60. Quoted in c/lb, the price is sourced from primary institutional feeds and refreshed on the cadence documented at /methodology.
Live cattle (CME). A multi-decade-low US herd keeps the beef complex historically tight. At the latest reading, Live Cattle prints a spot of 212c/lb — a move of ▲0.40% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲4.10% across the trailing thirty days.
The v3.2 stress index places LIV.CATL at 0.60 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.
For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Live Cattle compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry LIV.CATL as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.
No active scenario currently carries Live Cattle as an explicit input.