Fastmarkets is extending until July 31 the consultation period for its proposal to launch a daily containerized steel scrap cfr Vietnam assessment.

Fastmarkets has standardized the names of our metals and minerals prices across our product suite for ease of use and greater transparency.

Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of publication of its fob Guinea and Brazil bauxite price assessments due to low spot liquidity in the past year.

Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of publication of its Japan and South Korea high-carbon ferro-chrome price assessments due to low spot liquidity over the past year.

After 19 years of providing live spot market prices for gold, silver, platinum and palladium to hundreds of thousands of clients across the world, Fastmarkets will retire the Bullion Desk brand and close the Bulliondesk.com website.

Fastmarkets MB is delaying the launch of a weekly price assessment of South America import aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel coil reported on a US-dollar-per-tonne cfr South America basis.

Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of publication of a number of base metal price assessments in response to low transaction liquidity and a lack of price volatility in the past year.

Fastmarkets proposes to change the frequency of its assessments for tin ingot premiums from weekly to fortnightly in Rotterdam, Shanghai, Taiwan, Baltimore and the US Midwest.

Fastmarkets published its cif Tianjin and Port Elizabeth manganese ore indices later than scheduled on Friday June 7 because of a technical problem.

Fastmarkets proposes changes to the specification of its cobalt hydroxide payable indicator.