Fastmarkets will increase the pricing frequency of its fixed price cobalt hydroxide index, to fortnightly from Friday August 7.

A correction has been issued for this article.

Fastmarkets has decided not to proceed with the proposed amendment of its cobalt hydroxide payable indicator and cobalt hydroxide index, both min 30% Co, cif China, to include a maximum iron content in its chemical specifications.

Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodologies for European paper and board assessments via an open consultation process between June 5 and July 3, 2020. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process. No feedback was received during the consultation period. This consultation sought to ensure […]

Fastmarkets today launches a weekly tantalum concentrate price assessment, expanding its current price coverage of raw materials.

With effect from September 2020, Random Lengths is proposing to simplify the process for calculating monthly averages. Monthly averages appear in the Random Lengths weekly publication and in Yardstick. Currently they are calculated using the ISO 8601 rule, whereby the first week of the year is the week containing the first Thursday. In determining monthly […]

Fastmarkets is proposing to change to the specification of its weekly steel hot-rolled coil export, fob main port Turkey, $/tonne price assessment.

Fastmarkets proposes to change the publication day of its European and seaborne price assessments, indices and indicators covering chrome ore and ferro-chrome to Tuesday, from Friday.

In light of the recent turmoil in the oil market, the Fastmarkets research team has closely examined the correlations between the price of oil and the prices for ferrous scrap and finished steel products, to discover nuanced relationships and their changes over time.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue five precious metals price assessments due to the limited liquidity of the markets in question and to focus on its core markets.