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Fastmarkets LME Nickel March Average skewed by suspension of market: subscriber notice

March 23, 2022
Nickel Pricing notice

The Fastmarkets LME Nickel March Average has been skewed by the suspension of the market followed by the disrupted Officials published for the 8-21st March and the 23rd March.

Please see the LME Notice 22/064 Nickel Market Update Resumption of Trading, paragraph 24 in regard to Averages methodology in the event of a disrupted Official.

Fastmarkets is reviewing the situation and will provide further updates in due course.

For more information, please refer to https://www.lme.com/en/News

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