From Monday February 3, 2020, Fastmarkets will publish its price assessments for standard and alloy-grade cobalt, in-whs Rotterdam, on a daily basis.

Fastmarkets FOEX is unifying its methodology and policies for all PIX indices to comply with Fastmarkets’ internal guidelines and the IOSCO principles. Along with this development, some index collection criteria will not fully fulfil these policy requirements. Fastmarkets FOEX is considering the following changes to its PIX Woodchip indices: Discontinue the PIX Hardwood Chip Asia […]

Fastmarkets FOEX is unifying its methodology and policies for all PIX indices to comply with Fastmarkets’ internal guidelines and the IOSCO principles. Along with this development, some index data collection criteria will not fully fulfil these policy requirements. Fastmarkets FOEX is considering the following changes to its PIX Pellet Continental Index: Discontinue the PIX Pellet […]

Fastmarkets is extending by one week to December 4 its proposal to increase the frequency of the normalization price data for its seaborne manganese ore indices to monthly from quarterly; and to change the payment terms.

Fastmarkets proposes to increase the frequency of the normalization price data for its seaborne manganese ore indices to monthly from quarterly.

As part of our ongoing effort to provide customers with the most relevant and meaningful market coverage, Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to rationalize its coverage of pulp prices delivered to China. Currently Fastmarkets RISI offers a number of assessments for Northern Bleached Softwood (NBSK) delivered China in PPI Pulp & Paper Week, PPI Asia, World […]

To better reflect current market conditions, RISI is considering the following changes to its South Korean coverage: – Discontinue assessments of 60 g uncoated woodfree paper – Discontinue assessments of 80 g uncoated grayback duplex board These two grades have not been produced in South Korea for more than one year. With prices unavailable, RISI […]

Metal Bulletin is running a one-month consultation to seek feedback on whether to keep excluding certain origins in the assessment of its spot main Japanese ports (MJP) aluminium P1020 cif premium.

To reflect better current trading in the European newsprint markets, RISI proposes to make the following changes to its price coverage in PPI Europe. –              Launch assessments of improved newsprint 68 ISO in Germany (the same grade as                 assessed in the UK); –              Launch assessments of standard 42.5-g newsprint prices in Italy. These changes […]

In light of China’s ban on imports of “unsorted” recyclables such as mixed paper, which took effect on December 31, 2017, RISI is considering the following changes to its recovered paper coverage in PPI Asia: 1) To discontinue assessments of the following grades delivered China: Mixed Paper & Board, from Japan (imports to China, net), […]