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    Steel market participants often identify iron ore as the key driver of steel prices because mills typically formulate their pricing strategies based on raw material costs – but this appears to have changed in 2020.

    Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed but little changed this morning, Tuesday September 29, while prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were firmer as they caught up with Monday’s performance on the LME.

    As part of ongoing efforts to bring greater transparency to the markets we serve, Fastmarkets RISI will launch new net price assessments for fluff pulp delivered China on September 29, 2020. The new price assessments will be published monthly in PPI Pulp & Paper Week, PPI Asia, World Pulp Monthly Table 5, the Fastmarkets RISI online […]

    The world’s largest steelmaker is largely decamping from its assets in the United States more than a decade after consolidating a domestic steel industry decimated by bankruptcies.

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    In Hotter Commodities, special correspondent Andrea Hotter cuts to the chase on the biggest stories impacting the natural resources sector, what it means for the markets, the key risks and opportunities.

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