Early publication of steel billet index, Black Sea

Fastmarkets’ daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea was published earlier than scheduled due to an error on Tuesday March 4.

The MB-STE-0558 steel billet index export, fob Black Sea, CIS was published at 3:32pm London time instead of the scheduled time of 4pm.

The data submission window had already closed, and the data collection and price assessment were not affected by the early publication.

This price is a part of the Fastmarkets steel package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on the early publication of these prices, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact Vlada Novokreshchenova by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Vlada Novokreshchenova early publication of daily CIS billet.”

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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