CME Group’s busheling futures contracts traded 66 lots (1,320 gross tons) on Tuesday January 25, up from 15 lots during the previous session

The biggest takeaways from a recent webinar led by Janie Davies between Fastmarkets’ William Adams and Dalila Ouerghi with the CME’s Gregor Spilker on the cobalt market outlook for 2022

The publication of Fastmarkets’ assessment of the Japan aluminium 6063 extrusion quarterly billet premium, cif MJP for the first quarter of 2021 was delayed due to a reporter error. The aluminium 6063 extrusion quarterly billet premium, cif MJP, is a quarterly premium and is normally published on the third Friday of the first month of […]

The publication of Fastmarkets’ daily seaborne Asian lithium prices for Tuesday January 25 was delayed due to a technical issue. The prices were assessed and published in our internal pricing system, MInD, at the correct time but did not show on the Fastmarkets dashboard or price book. Fastmarkets’ pricing database and price book have since […]

Tight market and soaring input costs push prices up to unprecedented levels

Graphite availability and total EV battery costs were two key reasons for less active participation by automakers in securing key material

Spot prices for spodumene concentrate continued to post sharp gains over the past fortnight due to tight supply combined with continuously improving demand for downstream lithium chemicals amid booming electric vehicle demand worldwide

After the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, the seaborne iron ore market will be affected by the macro-economic environment, seasonally low supplies and ongoing or additional steel production cuts in northern China, sources told Fastmarkets this week. Positive monetary policy boost Market sentiment has been particularly sensitive, in the short term, to official Chinese government […]

China imported a total of 552,892 tonnes of steel scrap in 2021, an increase of 1,938% from the prior year, according to the latest Chinese customs data. China has restricted imports of the steelmaking raw material since July 2019. It only began allowing certain grades to be brought in at the start of 2021. In […]

Due to technical issues, the PIX Paper A4 B-copy index value appeared incorrectly on foex.fi website and Fastmarkets RISI portal and mobile app for some minutes after publishing today. The correct PIX Paper A4 B-copy index value of Jan 25, 2022 is: 1,016.53 EUR/t. The monthly average was not affected. All databases have now been […]