The gap between lithium spot and contract prices has narrowed significantly in 2021 as a result of tight availability along the lithium supply chain and price evolution, market sources said.

Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on its pricing methodology for its Northern Europe and United States hot-rolled coil indices as part of its annual methodology review process in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco) principles for price reporting agencies.

Fastmarkets is extending the delivery window for its price assessments of aluminium 6063 extrusion billet premiums in Europe to three months.

Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for North American Packaging Paper and Board grades in Containerboard and Kraft Paper, and Boxboard, via an open consultation process between Apr. 22 and May 21, 2021. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process. We received feedback from […]

Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for North American Graphic Paper, via an open consultation process between Mar. 26 and Apr. 26, 2021. 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 that […]

Fastmarkets has decided to revise the outlier detection method used in the calculation of its copper concentrate treatment and refining charge (TC/RC) index.

With effect from June 2021, Fastmarkets RISI has switched to using monthly wood products forecasts in dashboards on the Intelligence Center. Previously Fastmarkets RISI had shown quarterly forecasts for wood products, as for other grades. However, due to the extreme volatility in the markets at present, this has led to discrepancies between the forecasts and […]

Fastmarkets invites feedback on its Taiwan steel scrap price assessment as part of its annual methodology review process, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco) principles for price reporting agencies.

Fastmarkets RISI is inviting feedback from the industry on the pricing methodologies for global pulp, as part of its announced annual methodology review process. This consultation, which is open until June 18, 2021, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities […]

Fastmarkets has corrected its weekly steel wire rod export, fob Black Sea, CIS assessment, which was published erroneously on Monday May 24 due to an input data submitted by a data submitter by mistake. The data submitter subsequently corrected their submission, leading to Fastmarkets amending the price assessment.