Fastmarkets MB increased the frequency of the assessment of manganese ore inventories at the main Chinese ports of Tianjin and Qinzhou to weekly from fortnightly on Thursday January 3.

As previously announced, RISI has discontinued assessments of the following two grades with effect from this month. Uncoated woodfree paper 60g (Price ID 200) Uncoated grayback duplex board 80g (Price ID 211) This follows a market consultation in the fourth quarter of 2018 and is intended to reflect better current market trade. These two grades […]

Fastmarkets would like to clarify that its Rotterdam duty-paid P1020 aluminium premium assessment for Tuesday January 1 was published on Monday December 31, 2018 instead.

Fastmarkets MB has amended the date of publication of its monthly ferro-nickel cif China price to Monday December 31 instead of today after it was incorrectly published earlier due to a reporter error.

In view of the shift in North American newsprint markets towards lighter basis weights, RISI proposes to discontinue price assessments for 48.8 g/30 lb newsprint in PPI Pulp & Paper Week. The following price series would be affected: Price ID 191         Newsprint 48.8 g/30 lb US East Price ID 192         Newsprint 48.8 g/30 lb US […]

PPI Pulp & Paper Week has made two corrections to its US Recovered Paper price tables that were published on Dec. 5. The first change is a typo on the price of Sorted Office Paper (37), domestic, FOB US Pacific Northwest. The price reported on Dec. 5 was $175-178/ton, but it should have been $175-185, in […]

Fastmarkets has today changed the publication time of its CIS export steel billet index, fob Black Sea ports, from 2pm to 4pm London time.

Fastmarkets MB proposes to launch two new manganese ore China port indices on a free-on-truck (fot) basis.

Fastmarkets MB proposes to discontinue four weekly tin spot premium assessments in Rotterdam, Shanghai and Singapore due to a lack of spot liquidity.

Following a one-month consultation period, Fastmarkets MB will implement the proposed specification changes to the MB 65% Fe Iron Ore Index from Monday December 3.