Grain exports from Black Sea threatened as Russia pulls out of free corridor deal

Black mass will be increasingly valuable as recycling technology improves, Benoit Couture, the president of lithium-ion battery recycling company Lithion Recycling, told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview

The benchmark US Midwest aluminium premium was steady on Friday, October 28 for the first time since the beginning of September, prompting some sources to say the premium has reached a bottom

The publication of Fastmarkets’ weekly CIS and European pig iron price assessments for Thursday October 27 were delayed because of an error

Farmer sales of the 2022-23 wheat crop surged by 135%

The CME Group has tripled the volumes traded on its physically delivered global aluminium futures contract since the first quarter of 2022 - reaching a single-day high of 7,929 contracts on October 5, with a daily average of about 3,000 contracts so far this month and open interest at a record 1,411 contracts on October 19

Fastmarkets is proposing to launch a weekly indicator for direct-reduced (DR) iron pellet premiums, to be known as the iron ore DR-grade pellet premium indicator, $ per tonne.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its price assessment for hot-briquetted iron (HBI) exports from Venezuela, due to the sharp decline in shipments caused by the longstanding crisis in the country’s ironmaking industry and the unlikely prospect of any improvement in the near future.

Steel producers Tata Steel Netherlands, Salzgitter Flachstahl and Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe will supply carmaker Ford’s Europe division with low-carbon steel for its future vehicles, the car company said on Tuesday October 25

Low-priced offers of steel billet from China have significantly depressed sentiment in the key Southeast Asian steel market, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday October 25