Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 2 that are worth another look.

Steel industry leaders applauded the US House of Representative's passage of the $1.5-trillion Moving Forward Act, which provides for $494 billion in transportation infrastructure spending, on Wednesday July 1.

Monthly average consumption of steel scrap in Brazil was expected to have fallen by 50% year-on-year during the first half of 2020, amid lower demand from steelmakers due to the Covid-19 pandemic, local scrap association Inesfa said on Thursday July 2.

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Markets participants are in an optimistic mood while they focus on economic data that is improving and hopes of a Covid-19 vaccine this morning, Thursday July 2, while apparently choosing not to focus on the havoc that the pandemic is causing.

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Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for global pulp via an open consultation process between May 14th and June 12th, 2020. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process. Little feedback was received during the consultation period. The methodology has been updated to remove quarterly […]

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Latin American apparent steel consumption is set to fall by around 17% in 2020 due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on end-user demand, according to calculations made by the region’s steel association, Alacero.

Fastmarkets proposes to refine the names of its global aluminium wheel alloy silicon 7 ingot premiums to reflect the material’s usage in the market.