Correction to Chinese ferro-nickel prices on February 16

Fastmarkets has corrected its ferro-nickel CIF China price assessments, which were published incorrectly on Monday February 16 due to a procedural error.

The erroneously published price assessments on Monday February 16 have been invalidated.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

The assessment was last published on February 2, and the next publication date will be March 2.

The assessment follows the Chinese holiday calendar.

The following assessments were affected:
MB-FEN-0003 Ferro-nickel premium/discount, 26-32% Ni contained, cif China, $/tonne
MB-FEN-0006 Ferro-nickel, 20-25% nickel contained, outright price, cif China, $/tonne 
MB-FEN-0007 Ferro-nickel 20-25% nickel contained, premium/discount, cif China, $/tonne

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets base metals price 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 basemetals@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: Chinese ferro-nickel prices.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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