Anti-dumping duties to drop to 11.64% from 17.91% after third US Department of Commerce review

The benchmark aluminium premium in the United States fell from its all-time high amid reported discounting, after having broken a series of records in six of the past seven assessments, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday, March 18

The number of drill rigs operating in the United States stayed steady for the second time in the past three weeks despite the recent climb in gas prices

Availability concerns on certain materials and in specific regions have been supporting the emergence of a premium for alloy-grade cobalt against standard-grade material, compounded by the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine war and its potential effect on flows of Russian cobalt

Analyzing Ukraine's agricultural landscape against the backdrop of the country's conflict with Russia

North American Stainless (NAS) will define the nickel portion of the April 2022 surcharge for its stainless products using only London Metal Exchange official closing prices from February 21-March 18, the company said on Friday, March 18, noting that days that included disruption events will be omitted.

Fastmarkets has corrected the LME Asian reference and TAPO prices for March 18, which were published incorrectly due to a technical error.

Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for steel billet import, cfr Manila, $/tonne (MB-STE-0141) via an open consultation process between February 14 and March 15, 2022.

Brazil, a country that already emits less greenhouse gases (GHG) per tonne of crude steel produced than the global average, seeks in charcoal and natural gas a way to take short-term steps on its lengthy decarbonization road, but its legacy integrated steelmaking capacity could be a hurdle

Fastmarkets is publishing the below statement from the London Metal Exchange in relation to the publication of official and closing prices for nickel.