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Delayed publication of European steel hot-rolled coil indices: pricing notice

The publication of Fastmarkets’ price assessments of steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, exw Italy and steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, exw Northern Europe for Monday December 8 were delayed due to a reporter error. Fastmarkets pricing database has been updated.

December 8, 2025
By Fastmarkets pricing team
Europe hot-rolled coil Steel

The following prices were affected:

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

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

These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets steel package.

For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of this price or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these indices, please contact Davide Montagner by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com and davide.montagner@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 of Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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