Early publication of steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US Midwest

Fastmarkets’ daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US Midwest, $/cwt for Thursday November 13 was published earlier than scheduled due to an error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

The assessment was published at 3:48pm EST 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.

The following price was published early: 

MB-STE-0184 Steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US Midwest, $/cwt

This price is a part of the Fastmarkets Physical 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 this price, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and steel@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US Midwest.”

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To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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