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Fastmarkets advises that, as of Friday June 9, some regional ferrous scrap prices and markets have not settled for June; Fastmarkets typically settles these markets on or before the 10th of each month.

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Fastmarkets will discontinue its consumer buying assessment for steel scrap rail crops 2ft max, delivered mill Chicago, effective July 1 amid a sustained lack of liquidity for that grade in that market.

Fastmarkets has, in line with our annual methodology review process, concluded a consultation that opened on May 4, 2023, inviting feedback on our methodology for our US Midwest ferrous scrap indices.

Fastmarkets is proposing to reinstate one quarterly US titanium price based on market feedback and is reopening a consultation for four other US titanium prices that were discontinued.

Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for its index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), North Europe origin, cfr Turkey (MB-STE-0416), and its index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), US origin, cfr Turkey (MB-STE-0417), via an open consultation process between May 4 and June 5, 2023.

In contrast to the apparent widespread belief that war would lead to a surge in scrap collections in Ukraine, volumes actually fell in 2022 and are likely to fall again in 2023, according to the head of Ukranian commodities think-tank, GMK Center