Asian spot copper premiums rose in the week ended Tuesday July 23, with premiums imported into China increasing on improved arbitrage terms. In the US market, supply failed to keep up with strong demand while in Europe participants were mostly off for the summer holidays

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the pricing frequency of its MB-STE-0889 steel scrap, index, heavy recycled steel materials, cfr east China, and MB-STE-0895 steel scrap, index, heavy recycled steel materials, cfr north China to once a month from the current weekly basis.

Germany’s steel industry will be one of the country’s main consumers of imported hydrogen in the next two decades, according to the hydrogen import strategy approved by the country’s Federal Cabinet on Wednesday July 24

Considering the year's announcements, including the Cerrado project, there could be an addition of 1.1 million tonnes of new BHK capacity in the second half of 2024

Fastmarkets will launch its new suite of US black mass payable indicators on Wednesday August 7, following a one-month consultation period.

Demand for primary aluminium from the green transition remains a “brighter spot” for consumption amid an otherwise challenging downstream demand outlook, Eivind Kallevik, Norsk Hydro’s chief executive officer and president, told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview on Tuesday July 23

Acquisition Company Limited (ACG) has agreed to buy the Gediktepe mine in Turkey — the company’s first deal as it works to build a sizeable mid-tier copper producer, its chairman and chief executive officer told Fastmarkets.

Copper market price speculation is driving the base metals narrative, head of research at UK-based services provider Sucden Financial Daria Efanova said during the company’s third-quarter metals webinar on Wednesday July 17.

Fastmarkets spoke with Canada-based Northern Graphite CEO Hugues Jacquemin on North American graphite, the electric vehicle (EV) industry and the need for a North American supply chain on Wednesday July 17

After initial market turbulence when China introduced export controls on gallium, germanium and graphite last year, a new normal has settled into the international markets for these metals, market participants have told Fastmarkets