ED&F Man’s Ed Meir clinched the top spot on the base metals predictions leaderboard for the second quarter of 2020 with 98.87% accuracy while ING’s Wenyu Yao took the top spot for precious metals predictions over the period with a 98.75% accuracy rating.

Clients of Jinchuan Maike have cut exposure to the trader this week, coming at the same time that the company underwent a major management reshuffle.

Import scrap prices in key Vietnam import markets continued on an upward trend this week, in line with increases in other parts of the world.

South Korean steelmakers were able to book bulk scrap cargoes from Japan over the past week at low prices although offers for US-origin deep-sea material continued to jump, sources have told Fastmarkets.

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Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodologies for European paper and board assessments via an open consultation process between June 5 and July 3, 2020. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process. No feedback was received during the consultation period. This consultation sought to ensure […]

Resource nationalism is one of the key risks miners will face in the increasingly volatile macroeconomic environment worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, global law firm White & Case told Fastmarkets this week.

Global ferrous scrap prices across all key markets surged during the week to Friday July 24, with the momentum showing no sign of easing, according to market sources.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the global steel industry, there was still much to celebrate as the winners of the 11th annual Fastmarkets Global Awards for Steel Excellence were announced virtually on Thursday July 23.

European copper producer Aurubis has begun the process to gain the International Copper Alliance’s (ICA) Copper Mark at its metal processing facility in Pirdop, Bulgaria, it said on Friday July 24.