After a one month consultation, Fastmarkets has amended the pricing holiday schedule for its standard-grade cobalt and alloy-grade cobalt price assessments for the remainder of 2022 and beyond.

More pellets will be funneled into sustainable aviation fuel projects and to coal-fired plants

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the publication day of the weekly US steel cut-to-length plate price assessment from Fridays to Tuesdays.

Fastmarkets has temporarily suspended pricing US pig iron basic grade, Ukraine/Russia, fob New Orleans effective Monday March 14 due to a complete halt in sales following the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Prices for foundry and chemical grade chromite have been slow to respond to the boom so far this year in the metallurgical market

The European Commission announced its fourth package of restrictive measures against trade with Russia on Friday March 11, in response to that country’s invasion of Ukraine

Primary foundry alloy (PFA) premiums reached new all-time highs in both Europe and the United States in the month to Monday March 14, following increased supply concerns in both regions related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Seaborne iron ore prices fell sharply on Monday March 14, amid rising concerns over the increase in new Covid-19 cases in several areas in China and the weakening of demand for steel, sources told Fastmarkets

Despite the belief in some quarters that the benchmark aluminium premium in the United States had finally peaked, the P1020 premium rose to yet another all-time high on Friday March 11, approaching 40 cents per lb

Fastmarkets has corrected its weekly price assessment for steel slab export, fob Black Sea, CIS, which was published incorrectly earlier on Monday March 14 due to an error