Due to a reporter error, Fastmarkets’ copper concentrates TC/RC index, cif Asia Pacific was published incorrectly on Friday November 8.

Following a month-long consultation period and several months of pre-consultation research, Fastmarkets will launch a fortnightly price assessment for non-exchange-deliverable equivalent-grade (EQ) copper cathode premiums/discounts starting from Tuesday November 19.

Fastmarkets is proposing to reduce the frequency of publication of its European germanium metal and tellurium assessments and Chinese germanium dioxide assessment.

Following a period of market research in the copper cathode market, Fastmarkets proposes to launch fortnightly assessments of equivalent grade (EQ) copper cathode premiums, basis cif Europe and Shanghai.

Fastmarkets proposes to change its cif Shanghai ferro-chrome index to a single-figure price assessment and change the location from Shanghai to main Chinese ports

Fastmarkets has corrected the pricing rationale for its manganese ore 37% index cif China that was published incorrectly on Friday October 25 due to a reporter error.

Fastmarkets has amended the date of its latest steel slab import, cfr Southeast Asia/East Asia price.

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

Fastmarkets is proposing to discontinue its fortnightly price assessments for mercury.

Fastmarkets will discontinue the publication of price change articles on metalbulletin.com from Tuesday October 22.