Delayed publication of base metals arbitrage assessments

The publication of Fastmarkets’ price assessments of the base metals arbitrage for copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel for Monday March 3 were delayed because the publication time was wrongly set. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

The following prices were affected:
MB-CU-0361 Copper import arbitrage, $ per tonne
MB-CU-0362 Copper import arbitrage, yuan per tonne
MB-NI-0106 Nickel import arbitrage, $ per tonne
MB-NI-0107 Nickel import arbitrage, yuan per tonne
MB-ZN-0083 Zinc import arbitrage, $ per tonne
MB-ZN-0084 Zinc import arbitrage, yuan per tonne
MB-AL-0289 Aluminium import arbitrage, $ per tonne
MB-AL-0290 Aluminium import arbitrage, yuan per tonne

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets base metals package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of these prices, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact Laura Li by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Laura Li, re: base metals arbitrage.”

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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