The publication of Fastmarkets’ quarterly aluminium 6063 extrusion quarterly billet premium, cif main Japanese ports (MJP) was delayed on October 18 due to a reporter error.

Fastmarkets has identified and corrected historical errors where the weekly counterparty indicator was published incorrectly in the copper concentrates newsletter.

Fastmarkets has amended the specifications of its two cobalt hydroxide price assessments to take account of chemical components, mine origin of material eligible for consideration, and publication frequency.

A few changes and additions to the Random Lengths lumber and panel guides take effect with this issue. In the lumber price guide, the deduct price range for Western S-P-F Std&Btr 2×4 random dimension has been retired. This deduct range, which was published in footnotes on pages 5 and 6, was from the #2&Btr price. […]

The publication of the ferro-chrome lumpy Cr charge quarterly, basis 52% Cr (and high carbon), delivered Europe, settlement was delayed because of a processing error.

Fastmarkets published its weekly manganese ore indices 30 minutes later than scheduled on Friday September 27 due to technical problems.

Fastmarkets is extending until October 15 the consultation period for its proposal to discontinue five of its precious metals prices.

Exceptionally, Fastmarkets RISI will publish its next quarterly assessment for sack kraft in Europe on October 17 instead of the originally scheduled October 10. For comments and queries, please email pricing.risi@fastmarkets.com. To view Fastmarkets RISI’s price publishing schedules please see here.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its assessment of the copper rod annual premium, cif Nhava Sheva, due to a lack of liquidity and excessively long premium negotiation periods.

Fastmarkets has discontinued its weekly price assessments for long and flat steel products in southern China.