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Making sense of the evolving battery materials market

Access Fastmarkets' checklist for battery materials analysts below

As the demand for battery materials skyrockets, analysts face a pressing challenge: How do you build concrete analysis for a historically opaque market? In this rapidly progressing landscape, having the right insights is key. Your analysis combined with reliable data and information can provide businesses clarity to inform their tactics, secure their supply chains and stay ahead in the fiercely competitive battery materials market.
Do you have access to the most up-to-date price data and market analysis?

As an analyst, you’re well aware of the importance of reliable data and insights, but every team has its blind spots. This is especially true in such a volatile market. Use our checklist to better understand what you could be missing out on in the rapidly evolving battery materials market. Examine key questions including:

  • Do you have visibility over supply and demand forecasts for strategic planning? 
  • Do you have an outlook on the supply and demand of key materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt? Do you know how this would affect the prices of battery materials?
  • Do you have enough information from across the value chain to be able to provide insights to different stakeholders?
  • Do you have transparency over the entire supply chain?
  • How granular is your current data?

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Find out what’s happening in the battery raw materials market
Nickel briquette premiums decline in US, Europe; cathode premiums mixed

Spot market premiums for nickel products showed mixed fortunes in Europe and the US in the week ended Tuesday January 24, with briquette premiums in both regions moving downward on a shift in sentiment

January 27, 2023
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By: the Fastmarkets team
Albemarle says 75-80% of its contracts are now long-term variable

Albemarle has continued to shift its lithium sales to long-term variable contracts and away from spot contracts, with a focus on strategic customers through the battery supply chain, according to the president of the company’s energy storage division

January 25, 2023
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By: Andrea Hotter
Bolivia finally enters the lithium race | Hotter on metals

Despite having the world’s largest known resources of lithium, Bolivia has been seriously lagging in its ability to turn them into resources for commercial development. But that could all be about to change.

January 24, 2023
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By: Andrea Hotter
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