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Base metals market update May 2025
Read Fastmarkets' monthly base metals market for May 2025 focusing on raw materials including copper, nickel aluminium, lead, zinc and tin.
May 21, 2025
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By the Fastmarkets team
Insights
Proposal to amend frequency of Taiwan base metals premium and delivery timing for tin 99.99% ingot premium
Fastmarkets proposes to amend the frequency of Taiwan base metals prices from biweekly to monthly, and the delivery timing for the tin 99.99% ingot premium from two weeks to four weeks.
May 13, 2025
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By Chay Chye Leng
Insights
Correction to rationale for tin grade A min 99.85% ingot premium, ddp Midwest US on May 6
The MB-SN-0011 rationale mistakenly read “The tin grade A min 99.85% ingot premium, ddp Midwest US, was $1,550-1,660/t on Tuesday May 6, unchanged week on week.” This has been corrected to read “The tin grade A min 99.85% ingot premium, ddp Midwest US, was $1,550-1,660/t on Tuesday May 6, unchanged since March 4.” Fastmarkets’ pricing database has […]
May 6, 2025
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By Rae Boyadjis
Insights
Delay to base metal rand fixing prices
A second pricing notice will follow when the pricing database has been updated. The following prices have been affected by this:MB-AL-0256 Aluminium fixing price for LME trade, rand/tonne MB-CU-0338 Copper fixing price for LME trade, rand/tonne MB-PB-0064 Lead fixing price for LME trade, rand/tonne MB-NI-0093 Nickel fixing price for LME trade, rand/tonne MB-SN-0005 Tin rand fixing price for LME trade, […]
March 13, 2025
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Insights
Decision to amend frequency of some US base metals premiums
After a month-long consultation period, Fastmarkets has amended the frequency of these US base metals, following mostly positive feedback from market participants and internal data analysis. The main pricing day will continue to be Tuesdays at 3-4pm London time, but these tin, lead and nickel premiums will be assessed once a month instead of fortnightly […]
January 6, 2025
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By Rae Boyadjis
Insights
Delayed publication of US tin, lead premiums
The publication of Fastmarkets’ price assessments for MB-SN-0011 tin Grade A min 99.85% ingot premium, ddp Midwest US, $/tonne; MB-SN-0036 tin 99.85% ingot premium, in-whs Baltimore, $/tonne; and MB-ZN-0005 zinc SHG min 99.995% ingot premium, ddp Midwest US, US cents/lb for Tuesday December 10 was delayed due to an editor error.
December 10, 2024
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By Grace Asenov
Insights
Proposal to amend frequency of some US base metals premiums
Fastmarkets proposes to amend the frequency of the publication of several US base metal price assessments to a monthly basis, including MB-PB-0006 lead 99.97% ingot premium, ddp Midwest US; MB-SN-0036 tin 99.85% premium, in-whs Baltimore; MB-SN-0011 tin 99.85% premium, ddp Midwest US; MB-NI-0240 nickel 4x4 cathode premium, delivered Midwest US and MB-NI-0241 nickel briquette premium, delivered Midwest US.
December 2, 2024
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By Rae Boyadjis
Insights
Base metals market insights from LME Week
Market participants shared insight into the market dynamics for copper, nickel, zinc, lead and tin during LME Week, which ran September 30-October 4
October 9, 2024
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By Natasha Porter
Insights
Tin demand poised for long-term boom despite easing prices
Supply headwinds in the tin market so far in 2024 and the recent sell-off in the futures market show that demand is recovering more slowly than anticipated because of the poor macro-economic climate, but in the long-term, market participants still expect demand to grow due to the energy transition
August 12, 2024
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By Yiwen Ju
Insights
Launch of Singapore tin ingot premium
Fastmarkets has launched an FOB Singapore tin spot premium assessment, with tin poised to be a critical mineral in the ongoing global energy transition and Asia a key region for the metal’s production and consumption.
August 6, 2024
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By Yiwen Ju
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