Polish long steel prices published early due to public holiday on November 1

Fastmarkets’ weekly price assessments for Polish long steel were published on Thursday October 31, one day ahead of schedule due to a public holiday in Poland on November 1.

The early publication is in line with Fastmarkets’ pricing calendar, which marks November 1 as All Saints Day but did not specify that Polish prices would be affected by the public holiday. This has been amended.

The following prices were published early:

MB-STE-0092 – Steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic, cpt Poland, zloty/tonne

MB-STE-0891 – Steel wire rod (drawing quality) domestic, delivered Poland, zloty/tonne

These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets ferrous metals package.

For the full, up-to-date, pricing holiday schedule, click here.

For more information or to provide feedback on the early publication of these price assessments or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these assessments, please contact Darina Kahramanova by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Darina Kahramanova re Polish long steel price assessments”.

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

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