Fastmarkets futures contracts
Enabling Trading
Regardless of where you’re positioned along the supply chain, securing the right rates is essential. When you hedge with one of our derivatives contracts, you are proactively identifying and managing pricing risks and protecting yourself from unforeseen volatility in the market.
Our price assessments and indices follow a rigorous methodology and highly sophisticated data processing model designed to ensure balance among all market participants. Our price reporters produce independent, fair and representative price assessments with our state-of-the-art pricing system and adherence to International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles.
With decades of pricing history and an extensive network of market sources, we are the best-positioned price reporting agency to create a truly superior mechanism for representing the values of global ferrous markets. The resources and technology that support our pricing activities enable us to produce evaluations quickly, making these indices the most reactive in the market.
How hedging can help:
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MITIGATE RISK
Lock in future profit margins
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GAIN FAVORABILITY
Boost credit rating and cut cost of capital
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BUILD STABILITY
Improve cash flow forecasting and budgeting
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MANAGE EXPOSURE
Secure flexible price offerings
Current derivatives contracts available:
- CME Aluminium European Premium Duty-Unpaid (Metal Bulletin) Futures Contract
- CME Aluminium European Premium Duty-Paid (Metal Bulletin) Futures Contract
- CME U.S. Midwest Busheling Ferrous Scrap (AMM) Futures Contract
- CME Copper Premium Grade A CIF Shanghai (Metal Bulletin) Futures Contract
- CME Alumina FOB Australia (Metal Bulletin) Futures Contract
- NASDAQ Midwest US Shredded Steel Scrap – USSQ
- LME Cobalt Futures Contract
- LME Aluminum Premium Duty Unpaid European Futures Contract
- LME Alumina Futures Contract
- SGX MB Iron Ore CFR China (58% FE Fines) Index Futures Contract
- SGX MB Iron Ore CFR China (65% FE Fines) Index Futures Contract
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Fastmarkets MB 65% Fe iron ore index used as basis of settlement for 2019 iron ore pellet contracts, sources say
The use of Fastmarkets MB’s iron ore indices in physical contracts continues to widen, with several market participants confirming in recent weeks that they have settled 2019 term contracts using the Fastmarkets MB 65% Fe iron ore index as the base.
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Iron ore pricing explained by Fastmarkets' Peter Hannah
Multiple factors have a bearing on the price of iron ore - Metal Bulletin index manager Peter Hannah and price development manager Jon Mulcahy explain how price indicators, indices and differentials provide transparency and opportunities for risk management.
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Steel hedging explained by Fastmarkets' Paul Lim
As steel markets grow in maturity and look towards the use of derivatives and hedging tools, it is probably a good time to consider how hedging can increase the transparency of steel pricing and reducing the risks of volatile price trends.
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Ferrous hedging: Overcoming the day-to-day obstacles
Hedging in theory is a relatively straightforward concept but the management and execution of a day-to-day derivatives strategy can be overwhelming for many companies at first, Mitch Robertson, a partner at commodity derivatives advisory Ferrometrics, told Fastmarkets AMM in an interview.
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