Further delay to domestic North American ferrous scrap settlement for March

Fastmarkets advises that, as of Tuesday March 11, certain monthly North American ferrous scrap markets are yet to settle.

Fastmarkets typically settles these markets on or before the 10th of the month, but will be delaying publication due to delays in settlements.

The markets not settled by Tuesday include:

  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Alabama
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Arkansas-Tennessee
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Chicago
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Cincinnati
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Detroit
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, North Carolina
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, South Carolina
  • Ferrous scrap domestic dealer selling prices, St Louis
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Hamilton, Ontario
  • Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Montreal

To provide feedback on this notice, please contact Amy Hinton by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading: “FAO: Amy Hinton, re: scrap prices.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all of Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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