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Fastmarkets has corrected the rationale for its price index for MB-COA-0003 Premium hard coking coal, fob eastern Australian ports, which was published incorrectly on Thursday February 12, owing to a typographical error.

For a brief moment, the mining sector allowed itself to consider a bold idea: Rio Tinto and Glencore in merger discussions.

Learn about the robust iron ore methodology that ensures transparency and effective risk management for pricing mid-grade fines.

Fastmarkets published its assessment of the MB-STE-0232 steel scrap No1 busheling, consumer buying price, delivered mill Chicago, $/gross ton on Monday February 9, 2026.

Fastmarkets selects the frequency of publication of a market assessment after considering the number of data points (deals, bids, offers, deals heard and assessments) that it can reasonably expect to collect on a consistent basis over the selected period to support the price assessment process. This proposal follows preliminary discussions with the market as well […]

Following a two-week consultation period, which concluded on Thursday February 5, Fastmarkets has amended the publication time of the indices for MB-IRO-0011 iron ore 61% Fe fines, fot Qingdao, yuan/wet tonne, and MB-IRO-0022 iron ore 61% Fe fines, fot Qingdao, $/dmt conversion from daily at 6:30pm Singapore time to daily at 6:30pm Shanghai time, as well as to […]