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Correction to Shanghai aluminium arbitrage calculations for September 11

Fastmarkets has corrected its Shanghai-London arbitrage calculations for aluminium, which were published incorrectly on Monday September 11.

September 11, 2023
By Sally Zhang
Aluminium Pricing notice

Fastmarkets has corrected its arbitrage figures for aluminium imported into China on Monday, both on a yuan-per-tonne basis (MB-AL-0290) and on a dollar-per-tonne basis (MB-AL-0289).

The aluminium import arbitrage prices for September 11 were previously published as -1,998.45 yuan per tonne and -$273.13 per tonne.

These have been corrected to 156.55 yuan per tonne and $21.40 per tonne.

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, please contact Sally Zhang by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Sally Zhang re: Fastmarkets arbitrage”.

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

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