Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of publication of its fob Guinea and Brazil bauxite price assessments due to low spot liquidity in the past year.

More dovish central bank talk, this time from the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), has pumped fuel into the price rebounds in equities, bonds and the metals this morning, Thursday June 20.

Zinc prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were down during morning trading on Thursday June 20, tracking the weakness exhibited by the galvanizing metal’s three-month price on the London Metal Exchange overnight.

Fastmarkets has identified seven main takeaways on the lithium market from Fastmarkets’ 11th Lithium Supply and Markets Conference in Santiago last week.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday June 19 that are worth another look.

Fastmarkets MB will launch a weekly assessment of the South America Galvalume steel coil import price, reported on a US-dollar-per-tonne cfr South America basis.

Shipments of steel products from Iran remained unaffected by the conflict in the Gulf of Oman, which took place late last week, sources told Fastmarkets.

Dovish comments from European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi combined with some positive US-China trade developments, in that US president Donald Trump said he will meet Chinese president Xi Jinping in late June, to prompt a recovery in equities and industrial metals prices on Tuesday June 18.

The Fastmarkets copper concentrates TC/RC (treatment/refining charge) index tracks the market’s central point, providing miners, traders and smelters with a tool to benchmark long-term contracts against spot deals.

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were up across the board during morning trading on Wednesday June 19 amid renewed trade optimism and a more dovish tone from policymakers.