In light of China’s ban on imports of “solid waste,” including recovered paper, that is to take effect on Dec. 31, 2020, Fastmarkets RISI is proposing several changes to its North American export recovered paper price assessments. This includes changing the destinations of FAS price assessments for US recovered paper grades that have established markets […]

US copper scrap exporters are waiting to see how China’s new regulations affect the flow of scrap metal to the Asian country, which could have a significant impact on domestic copper scrap prices.

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have shot above $37 per hundredweight ($740 per short ton) for the first time in nearly two years on a supply-chain squeeze potentially made worse by rising Covid-19 infections, market participants said.

The premium of Brazilian soyoil over Argentine soyoil collapsed this week after the Brazilian government...

Commodity traders have long forecast that there would be consolidation in their own industry, and in some of the world’s biggest centers for metals business that has already started to happen.

The base metals were consolidating recent gains but generally holding up near high ground this morning, Thursday November 19 – this despite some nervousness emerging in wider markets about the rapid spread of Covid-19.

Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to increase the frequency of Russian containerboard assessments to monthly from January 2021. Currently these prices are published on a quarterly basis and reflect prices in the last month of the quarter. Fastmarkets RISI has received requests from stakeholders to increase this frequency to monthly to better capture price movements within […]

The metals were looking robust this morning, Wednesday November 18, and for the most part are managing to drive higher despite concerns about the rapid spread of Covid-19 and some mixed economic data of late.

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States held steady while more service centers tried and failed to enter the spot market for January 2021 shipments, with some buyers now unable to supply customers with enough tonnage to fulfill downstream needs.

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have continued to climb amid an ongoing supply squeeze and robust overall market fundamentals, Fastmarkets has learned.