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Metal Bulletin Apex Report – Now available on the FastMarkets platform

February 9, 2017
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Base metals Copper

Great news! The Metals Bulletin APEX Report for Q4 2016 is now available to research subscribers on the FastMarkets Platform!

What is the APEX report?
The Metal Bulletin APEX report collects the forecasts of the world’s leading metals analysts and ranks them for accuracy as well as providing a collective intelligence forecast weighted according to the accuracy of previous forecasts provided by analysts. Each analyst that takes part provides a forecast for each of the next 4 quarters

The report covers copper, aluminium, zinc, lead, nickel, tin, gold, silver, palladium, platinum, iron ore and coking coal.
Find out more You can download a sample copy of a previous report (Q2 2016) here.

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To get the latest copy of the MetalBulletin Apex report (Q4 2016) you need to be subscribed to the FastMarkets Research component. To upgrade your account to this subscription, please contact your account manager by emailing sales@fastmarkets.com or calling one of our regional offices.

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