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PRICING NOTICE: Amendment to frequency of Southeast Asia lead premiums

Fastmarkets has amended the frequency of its assessment of two lead ingot premiums for Southeast Asia.

March 16, 2021
By Julian Luk
Asia Pricing notice

After a month-long consultation, which ended on March 12, Fastmarkets has altered the frequency of assessment of the two premiums from bi-weekly to monthly.

Monthly assessment of these prices will start from Tuesday March 16, 2021. The assessments affected are:

To provide feedback on these premiums, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these assessments, please contact Julian Luk by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading ‘FAO: Julian Luk, re: Fastmarkets Southeast Asia lead premiums.’

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents go to: https://www.fastmarkets.com/about-us/methodology.

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