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Decision to discontinue lead 99.97% ingot warrant premium, in-whs US

Fastmarkets will discontinue its MB-PB-0097 lead 99.97% ingot warrant premium, in-whs US price assessment on Wednesday February 12.

February 12, 2025
By Natasha Porter
Base metals Lead Pricing notice

After a month-long consultation period, Fastmarkets has discontinued this price due to low market liquidity.

All short-term forecasts associated with this price (or these prices) produced by the Fastmarkets research team, if any, have also been discontinued.

If you have any comments on the discontinuation of this price, please contact Natasha Porter by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Natasha Porter re: US lead 99.97% ingot warrant premium.”

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 https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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