Correction to pricing rationale of Fastmarkets’ Shanghai copper cathode cif premium

Fastmarkets has corrected the first line in its pricing rationale for MB-CU-0403 copper grade A cathode premium, cif Shanghai, which was published incorrectly on Tuesday August 2 due to a reporter error.

August 3, 2022

By Sally Zhang

Base metals Copper Pricing notice

The rationale has been corrected to show that this is the rationale for Shanghai copper grade A cathode premium, cif Shanghai, rather than Shanghai bonded copper cathode premium.

There was no change to the price assessment for the market.

The affected rationale after amendments is as below:
The copper grade A cathode premium, cif Shanghai was unchanged on Tuesday due to the lack of spot trading.

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 Sally Zhang by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading FAO: Sally Zhang Re: Shanghai copper cathode cif premium.

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

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