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    The European and US battery grade lithium carbonate price fell by 2.9% week on week on Thursday July 16 amid continued demand weakness, while Chinese prices consolidated the previous week’s losses.

    Markets were mixed across the board this morning, Friday July 17, while traders consolidate recent gains – key will be how well prices manage to hold up.

    Seaborne premium prices decreased on Friday July 17 due to bearish sentiment in the market, sources said.

    Fastmarkets FOEX invited feedback from the industry in an open consultation process between June 5th and July 3rd, 2020 on the pricing methodologies for its PIX Pulp China indices. The consultation was done as part of our previously announced annual methodology review process. We also requested feedback on a proposal to change the publishing schedule […]

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