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Holiday Notice: Good Friday

Fastmarkets’ United States offices will be closed on Friday April 15 in observance of Good Friday. There will be no separate AMM Daily Newsletter or AMM Scrap Settlements newsletter dated Tuesday April 19, although automated newsletters will still be available via the Fastmarkets Dashboard.

April 11, 2022
Aluminium Pricing notice Steel

Pricing
The New York Mercantile Exchange and London Metal Exchange are closed on April 15 and the LME is also closed on Monday April 18.

Schedule changes
Steel prices in the Americas normally published on Fridays – including weekly plate and Latin American steel assessments – will instead be published on April 18 and Thursday April 14 respectively.

Nonferrous prices, including the Midwest aluminium premium, will instead be updated on April 14. Scrap prices usually due on the day, including the bi-monthly city scrap prices, will instead be published on April 18. There will be no daily hot-rolled coil index or daily busheling indicator for April 15.

To see all of Fastmarkets’ pricing methodologies and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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