Delayed publication of European steel hot-rolled coil indices

The publication of Fastmarkets’ assessments of the steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Italy, and the steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, on Friday May 15 was delayed by 15 minutes due to a reporter error. The Fastmarkets pricing database has been updated.

The following prices were affected:

MB-STE-0892 – Steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Italy, € per tonne

MB-STE-0028 – Steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, € per tonne.

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets steel 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 pricing@fastmarkets.com and steel@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: European HRC 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 the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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