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Manage price risk, strengthen contract negotiations and validate your commercial approach for the Middle East with market data and expert knowledge that spans metals, agriculture, forest products and carbon supply chains.

Markets covered:

  • Forecasts across regional base metals and steel — including billet, rebar, OCTG casing, line pipe and scrap flows — backed by GCC, Turkey and UAE demand drivers.
  • Forest pricing and analysis for recovered fibre, OCC, containerboard, packaging and pulp — with new ME recycled containerboard indices coming soon.
  • Agriculture coverage spanning grains, oilseeds, feed markets and protein supply chains, plus Egypt-focused demand and trade flow analysis.
  • Direct access to industry experts who advise on feasibility studies, procurement optimisation, off-take strategies and risk management.


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Fastmarkets has amended the dates for publication for the following in its pricing holidays calendar to show Friday June 19 as a publishing day, which was previously marked as a non-publishing day.

Prices for recycled fiber-based containerboard in the GCC region were mostly up in May amid mixed market demand.

The Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) flows, has been closed for three months since US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on February 28, driving up energy costs and putting Europe’s aluminium sector under pressure.

The following price was affected:MB-STE-0909 Steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Saudi Arabia, riyals/tonne The price was published with a delay of 42 minutes on June 1. This price is part of the Fastmarkets steel package. For more information, or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of this price, or if you would like […]

The publication of two Fastmarkets steel scrap assessments for the Turkish market was delayed on Tuesday May 26 because of a procedural error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

Fastmarkets invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for its Middle East PIX Packaging GCC indices via an open consultation process between April 17 and May 20 2026.


Fastmarkets combines the commodity intelligence of these familiar names:

Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap Price Bulletin • Industrial Minerals • RISI • FOEX • The Jacobsen • Agricensus • Palm Oil Analytics • Random Lengths • Hardwood Market Report
• FastMarkets and more