Fastmarkets has launched five domestic corn price assessments for the Brazilian market as AG-CRN-0126 Corn, fas Paranaguá, Real/60kg; AG-CRN-0127 Corn, fas Santos, Real/60kg; AG-CRN-0128 Corn, cif North-Paraná Railway, Real/60kg; AG-CRN-0129 Corn, fob Sinop, Real/60kg; and AG-CRN-0130 Corn, fob Ponta Grossa, Real/60kg on Monday September 8.

Fastmarkets has corrected its EN-BD-0002 biodiesel, FAME 0 premium, fob ARA and EN-BD-0003 biodiesel, RME premium, fob ARA assessments, which were published incorrectly on September 9.

Fastmarkets published its assessment of the MB-STE-0232 steel scrap No1 busheling, consumer buying price, delivered mill Chicago, $/gross ton on Monday September 8, 2025.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ MB-ALU-0002 Alumina index, fob Australia, $/tonne for Monday September 8 was delayed because of a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

Explore the latest trends in packaging in the GCC region, including price fluctuations for recycled fiber-based containerboard in August.

The key talking points across the aluminium supply chain ahead of Fastmarkets’ annual Aluminium Conference, taking place in Barcelona, Spain, on September 9-11.

The following price was affected:MB-CR-0003 Chromium alumino-thermic 99.4% min, in-whs Rotterdam, $/tonne This price is a part of the Fastmarkets minor metals package. For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of this price or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price assessment, please […]

Chinese zinc smelters rejected Teck Resources’ proposal that they absorb the cost of a 10% reciprocal tariff against the US on the Canadian miner’s shipments of zinc concentrates from its Red Dog mine in Alaska, sources told Fastmarkets, highlighting the challenges producers are navigating as geopolitical risks rise.

Tristan Pascall, chief executive officer of Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals, gave an exclusive interview with Fastmarkets on Friday August 29, in which he explains why Africa is the best place to build large copper mines, and gave his opinion of the outlook for the nickel, gold and copper sectors.

Cost and availability concerns around copper have accelerated aluminium substitution in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, with aluminium now used in an estimated 40% of global units, Lionel Chapis, Norsk Hydro’s senior vice president of Hydro Precision Tubing, told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview on Tuesday August 26.