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PRICING NOTICE: Updated Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2020

The Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule has been updated to reflect a change in the UK public holiday calendar.

September 4, 2019
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Pricing notice

The UK government has changed the date of the Early May bank holiday in 2020 to Friday May 8 to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. This will affect the publication of some Fastmarkets prices, which have been noted in the holiday pricing schedule 2019-2020.

Please click on the image below to view the updated Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for base metals, minors, ores & alloys and industrial minerals, and ferrous prices for 2019 and 2020.

For all Fastmarkets price methodologies and specifications, visit: https://www.fastmarkets.com/about-us/methodology

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