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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
Argentina doubles down on lithium to meet surging global demand

A bullish long-term outlook for lithium has resource-rich Argentina looking to incentivize bringing more projects into the country over the next three years to meet soaring global demand for the battery raw material

March 3, 2022
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DRC administration of cobalt-copper mine may spell new trouble for hydroxides

A ruling by a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) placing a temporary administrator in charge of China Molybdenum’s cobalt mine in the country could have significant implications for the cobalt hydroxide market, sources have told Fastmarkets

March 3, 2022
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By: the Fastmarkets team
Ukraine invasion compounds sense of tightness in cobalt market

Cobalt market participants have reported that this week’s Russian invasion of Ukraine will compound the tightness in availability of units in the spot market while some opt to steer clear of handling Russian material

February 25, 2022
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By: the Fastmarkets team
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