Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue pricing physical copper cathode premiums on a seaborne basis to South Korea.

Fastmarkets MB is inviting feedback on its iron ore indices, as part of its annual methodology review, in compliance with Iosco principles for price reporting agencies (PRAs).

Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to change the publication time for North American (NA) pulp delivered to the US East and China fluff assessments, with effect from March 30th, 2021. Specifically, NA pulp to the US East and fluff to China assessments would be published at 1:30 p.m. PST / 4:30 p.m. EST in PPI Pulp […]

Following consultation with stakeholders and as previously announced, Fastmarkets RISI has launched two new recycled brown pulp price assessments for China on a monthly basis, starting from January 2021. With China set to ban RCP imports from 2021, the country’s demand for recycled brown pulp is expected to keep growing. Fastmarkets RISI has been monitoring […]

After an extended consultation period, Fastmarkets has decided to amend its discount assessment for No2 copper scrap imported into China so that it is aligned with the country’s new import policy for such material.

Following consultation with stakeholders, Fastmarkets RISI has decided to increase the frequency of Russian containerboard assessments to monthly from January 2021. Until now these prices have been published on a quarterly basis and reflect prices in the last month of the quarter. Fastmarkets RISI has received requests from stakeholders to increase this frequency to monthly […]

Fastmarkets is proposing to launch a weekly import price assessment for steel billet on a cfr China basis.

Fastmarkets is proposing to launch a new daily China ferrous scrap import price assessment to enhance its growing editorial coverage of the Asian market for the steelmaking raw material.

View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2021-2022.

Fastmarkets has updated its formula for calculating the daily physical nickel arbitrage in Shanghai, after China announced it would lower the import tax on certain non-alloyed nickel from 2% to 1%, from January 1, 2021.