Following consultation with stakeholders, Fastmarkets RISI will discontinue the following price assessments with effect from October 2020. Deinked pulp (US air-dried and wet-lap), US East (Price ID 172) Southern Bleached Softwood Kraft, from US, CIF Japan (Price ID 489) Northern and Southern Mixed Bleached Hardwood Kraft, from Canadian/US, CIF Japan (Price ID 490) These assessments […]

Base metals prices on both the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange are firmer this morning, Thursday April 23, but the price pullbacks in recent days have questioned the robustness of the earlier rebounds.

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday April 22 that are worth another look.

Despite signs of the Covid-19 virus being brought more under control with daily death tolls in most major economies now in decline, the rebound in demand is slow and this seems to be weighing on metals prices this morning, Wednesday April 22.

Fastmarkets proposes amendments to the specifications of its price assessments for battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide to better reflect emerging norms in battery-grade chemistry.

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday April 21 that are worth another look.

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were weaker this morning, Tuesday April 21, and Asian-Pacific and pre-market major western equity indices were weaker too.

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday April 20 that are worth another look.

Chinese domestic portside manganese ore prices of both high and low grades registered significant increases in the latest assessments on Friday April 17, after the country’s ore traders raised offer prices notably in response to a 14-day extension of the lockdown in South Africa.

Defaults among overseas buyers have become a problem for Chinese steel exporters in recent weeks, with falling prices and weakening demand triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic leading to an increase in export credit insurance claims.