Learn about the impact of national security concerns on Chinese tungsten prices and the challenges facing exporters in 2025.

Since late December 2025 and into January 2026, Russia has deliberately targeted Ukraine’s vegetable oil sector through a concentrated series of systematic attacks aimed at disrupting the segment as an integrated system, which, along with other factors, has led to increases in delivered vegoil prices to their highest levels in the last few years. In particular, the sunoil FOB six ports price has been driven to its highest level since August 2022, Fastmarkets analyses showed.

The EU ETS reform, including the phase-out of free allocations, is set to significantly increase emissions costs for EU industrial producers, with effective EUA prices rising sharply by 2035, driving substantial cost pressures and price increases across key sectors like steel, aluminium, and downstream industries such as automotive and construction.

This consultation, which is open until Friday February 13, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical metals recycling markets, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) principles for price reporting agencies (PRAs). This includes all elements of our pricing process, our price specifications and publication frequency. View the […]

The consultation, which is open until Friday February 13, seeks to ensure that our audited methodologies and price specifications continue to reflect the physical markets for secondary aluminium, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs). This includes all elements of our pricing process, our price specifications […]

Understand how changing demand and costs are reshaping the iron ore trade flows across global markets in 2026.

In this month's featured insight, find out more from Fastmarkets' senior analyst Eduardo Gonzalez about how non-traditional destinations like South Korea and Vietnam fuel a structural shift in US export demands.

Fastmarkets has corrected the rationale for its MB-CU-0372, Copper grade A cathode premium, delivered Germany, $ per tonne price that was published incorrectly on Tuesday January 13.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lithium hydroxide futures contract achieved a record weekly trading volume of 8,296 tonnes in the first full week of 2026, according to CME data released on Monday, January 12. The previous weekly high trading volume was 6,366 tonnes in mid-February 2025. The contract also saw its third- and fourth-highest daily […]

Explore the role of DRC Gecamines in copper mining and its collaboration with Mercuria to strengthen international supply.