Delayed publication of European HRC indices

The publication of Fastmarkets’ European hot-rolled coil indices was delayed on Monday October 14 due to a reporter’s error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

The following prices were published with a delay of 27 minutes:

MB-STE-0028 – Steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, exw Northern Europe, €/tonne
MB-STE-0892 – Steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, exw Italy, €/tonne

These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets metals package.

For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of these indices or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these indices, please contact Julia Bolotova by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Julia Bolotova re hot-rolled coil indices”.

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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