Correction to Bleachable Fancy Tallow – Packer Chicago prices and fat index, fob US on February 27

Fastmarkets has corrected its assessment for AG-TLW-0001 Bleachable Fancy Tallow - Packer Chicago (cts/lb) published on February 27.

The price for AG-TLW-0001 Bleachable Fancy Tallow – Packer Chicago (cts/lb) was incorrectly published at 57 cents per lb and was corrected to 58 cents per lb to reflect all trade data from February 27.

The affected prices below have also now been re-calculated using the correct assessment for February 27:

AG-TLW-0001 Bleachable Fancy Tallow – Packer Chicago (cts/lb)
Incorrect price (February 27): 57
Correct price (February 27): 58

Incorrect weekly average: 57
Correct weekly average: 57.20

Incorrect monthly average: 55.58
Correct monthly average: 55.63

AG-FT-0001 Fat index, fob US, US Cents/lb
Incorrect price (February 27): 51.4216
Correct price (February 27): 51.7374

Incorrect weekly average: 50.91
Correct weekly average: 50.98

Incorrect monthly average: 49.43
Correct monthly average: 49.45

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect these changes.

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets Ags Oils, Fats and Biofuels Prices package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and fats_oils@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: Bleachable Fancy Tallow – Packer Chicago and fat index, fob US.”

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