The Middle East energy shock is driving up European natural gas prices, inflating paper packaging costs. Protect your F&B margins today with our data-driven procurement intelligence.

Fastmarkets is extending the consultation period for the methodology of several of its black mass payables indicators and prices, and is also proposing changes to the names of CIF South Korea and EWX Europe black mass prices.

Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for PIX Recovered Paper Europe and Germany indices via an open consultation process between February 20 and March 20 2026. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process.

Why independent benchmarks are quickly becoming the backbone of financial control, cost planning, and supply chain resilience in an era of volatile, supplier indexed contracts.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ European flat steel assessments for Wednesday March 25 was delayed due to a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

This consultation, which is open until April 27, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs). This includes all elements of our pricing process, our price specifications and publication frequency. The prices under […]

Fastmarkets is inviting feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for its fob and cif manganese ore indices, as part of its annual methodology review process.

The Middle East conflict has triggered a massive energy price shock, severely disrupting the European paper market by driving up production and transportation costs. Read more.

Strong demand pushed European biofuel feedstock prices further up during the week ending Thursday March 19, with sources reporting used cooking oil (UCO) trading at a €20 per tonne premium to last week’s levels, while category 3 animal fat prices moved up by €5-20 per tonne depending on the grade.

Fastmarkets has corrected the rationale for its MB-CO-0005 Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb price assessment, which was published incorrectly on Monday March 23 due to a typo.