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Correction to Fastmarkets’ US daily hot-rolled coil index

Fastmarkets has corrected its daily hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US, which was published incorrectly on Wednesday October 19 and on Thursday October 6, due to an error.

October 20, 2022
By Rijuta Dey
Flat products Pricing notice United States

Fastmarkets’ daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was incorrectly published as $35.95 per hundredweight on October 19, and has been corrected to $36.45 per cwt. The US HRC index was incorrectly published as $36.57 per cwt on October 6, and has been corrected to $37.03 per cwt.

Fastmarkets’ database has been updated to reflect these changes.

For more information, or to provide feedback on this correction notice, please contact Rijuta Dey Bera by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Rijuta Dey Bera, re: daily hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US.”

To see all of Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/about-us/methodology.

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