High interest rates, softening house price appreciation and sluggish home sales are beginning to affect the home improvement market

Australia-based Sunrise Energy Metals is searching for a location in the US to build a nickel-cobalt refinery, the company confirmed to Fastmarkets

We take a deeper dive into the impact of the merger on local paper packaging markets in Latin America

Fastmarkets wishes to clarify details around the following aspects of the pricing calendar for battery and technical grade lithium prices on a CIF China, Japan and Korea basis.

This price is scheduled for publication at 6pm Singapore time, twice-weekly, but was published four hours late.

PfR prices rose with European buyers’ efforts to limit the gap between domestic and export prices

Spot trading in the copper concentrate market was inactive in the week to Friday September 29, with Chinese participants in holiday mode ahead of China’s weeklong break for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day (September 29-October 6)

Participants in Europe’s copper industry struck a pessimistic tone in conversations with Fastmarkets in the lead-up to LME Week, with sources saying that weak demand, high interest rates and a poor macro-economic environment were dampening the mood in the industry

Investment for new projects outside of China and acceptance that synthetic graphite will continue to play a role in supplying the anode battery sector are key for the development of the nascent European graphite market, according to panelists at Fastmarkets’ European Battery Raw Materials conference in Amsterdam

Bears out of hibernation ahead of October ferrous scrap trade