Fastmarkets has corrected its price assessment for steel hot-rolled coil (commodity) export, fob main port India, which was published incorrectly on February 10 due to an error.

Inventory destocking for bleached and unbleached paper results in flat prices and drop in demand

Fastmarkets is proposing to amend its iron ore indices methodology by exempting the calculation of the iron ore premium indices from the automatic 4% outlier filter, to provide a more accurate representation of market dynamics and a more comprehensive calculation of the premium indices.

Nickel market participants around the world reacted with alarm to the allegations of “systematic fraud” raised by global commodity trading house Trafigura that could result in losses of up to $577 million

The nickel sulfate price rebounded for the first time in two months with new buying interest emerging after China’s 2023 Lunar New Year holiday

India has tough targets when it comes to increasing the volume of steel scrap being consumed by the country’s steel sector, but to reach its targets it will have to consider the supplies of such material that are available to Indian mills, an industry conference has heard

Hot-rolled coil prices in the US South brushed against $40 per hundredweight on higher mill offers, but continued to trail their Midwest counterparts due to skeptical buyers with sufficient inventories to wait out what they said was likely a short-term surge

Fastmarkets proposes to launch a bi-weekly magnesium metal assessment, ex-warehouse US, to provide insight and transparency to the various participants in the magnesium market.

Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for low-carbon ferro-chrome in Europe, via an open consultation process, initially between November 28, 2022, and January 9, 2023, and then extended to February 6, 2023.

While the energy transition gathers momentum globally, participants active across the battery value chain in Europe are continuing projects at a speedy case