Five associations representing carbon-intensive industries in Europe have joined forces to demand changes to the scope of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Signed on Wednesday, January 25, one of the five signatories to the joint statement, the European steel association Eurofer, released the statement to the public domain on January 27. The […]

With tensions high in the region and import demand rapidly shifting, will this result in a truly structural change in the agriculture market?

The agriculture sector in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul is expecting $6.6 billion in soybean and corn losses due to dry and warm conditions

This acquisition could give Glencore a chance for significant expansion in its US agricultural business

The idea of imposing a border tax on imports is "ill-advised" and would harm the metals industry and U.S. consumers, according to the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS)

Rio Tinto’s major setback at its lithium development project in Serbia exposes the overall fragility of Europe’s outlook for bringing battery raw material sourcing closer to home

The biggest takeaways from a recent webinar led by Janie Davies between Fastmarkets’ William Adams and Dalila Ouerghi with the CME’s Gregor Spilker on the cobalt market outlook for 2022

The publication of Fastmarkets’ assessment of the Japan aluminium 6063 extrusion quarterly billet premium, cif MJP for the first quarter of 2021 was delayed due to a reporter error. The aluminium 6063 extrusion quarterly billet premium, cif MJP, is a quarterly premium and is normally published on the third Friday of the first month of […]

The publication of Fastmarkets’ daily seaborne Asian lithium prices for Tuesday January 25 was delayed due to a technical issue. The prices were assessed and published in our internal pricing system, MInD, at the correct time but did not show on the Fastmarkets dashboard or price book. Fastmarkets’ pricing database and price book have since […]

Graphite availability and total EV battery costs were two key reasons for less active participation by automakers in securing key material