Globalization, financialization and other key differences in today’s metals markets make comparisons to past periods of inflation potentially misleading. Fastmarkets experts discuss.

An alarming drop in water levels in Germany’s Rhine River and other key waterways in Europe has led to massively strained logistics in shipping commodities across Europe, driving up costs and exacerbating material supply, sources told Fastmarkets

The major shifts in the vegetable oils market

Fastmarkets is proposing a realignment of its dealer selling price for ferrous scrap machine shop turnings in Houston, effective from the September 2022 monthly settlement.

While huge investments are being made to design, manufacture and improve electric vehicles, solutions to the means of charging rapidly growing numbers of them are needed too

Biodiesel exports from the US hit an all-time high of 30.3 million gallons in May

Fastmarkets is proposing a realignment of its dealer selling price for ferrous scrap machine shop turnings in St Louis, effective from the September 2022 monthly settlement.

Fastmarkets is proposing a realignment of its consumer buying prices for No1 bundles and No1 busheling scrap in Alabama, effective from the September 2022 monthly settlement.

Fastmarkets has corrected its consumer buying price for cut structural/plate 3’max, delivered mill Philadelphia, following an input error during the monthly domestic ferrous scrap trade in May.

Mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP) is increasingly emerging as the preferred nickel intermediary product for nickel sulfate producers in China and beyond