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Soybeans delivered into China are trading at a theoretical discount to the origin price as a fall-off in futures over the…
The Lumber Weekly Price Changes table in the Random Lengths Lumber Market Report transmitted by email and uploaded to the RISI portal dated Tuesday November 24, 2020, file LBR_48_2020.pdf was not updated from the previous week. The LBR_48_2020.pdf has been revised as of 11/25/2020, and is being retransmitted to all Lumber Market Report PDF subscribers. […]
In light of China’s ban on imports of “solid waste,” including recovered paper, that is to take effect on Dec. 31, 2020, Fastmarkets RISI is proposing several changes to its North American export recovered paper price assessments. This includes changing the destinations of FAS price assessments for US recovered paper grades that have established markets […]
Fastmarkets RISI is proposing to increase the frequency of Russian containerboard assessments to monthly from January 2021. Currently these prices are published on a quarterly basis and reflect prices in the last month of the quarter. Fastmarkets RISI has received requests from stakeholders to increase this frequency to monthly to better capture price movements within […]
Hot-rolled coil spot prices in the United States have surpassed $35 per hundredweight for the first time since March 2019.
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