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We’ve recently launched our digital short-term forecasting onto the Fastmarkets platform in an integrated service with prices over a single delivery platform. They have a similar scope to the Tracker services but are delivered in a digital format for you. With our forecasting services being delivered on our new platform in a single offering, this means gaining the enhanced and integrated functionality of our digital offerings, together with the continuity and convenience of our PDF and Excel delivery. As we bring these offerings together, we’ll be aligning the Trackers to our pricing services.
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Subscribers to Tracker services will receive access to the platform, including the enhanced functionality of the digital offering and full access to relevant Fastmarkets metals pricing. Tracker clients will be able to access their familiar PDF and Excel files. Subscribers to the digital short-term forecast offerings will now receive access to supporting PDF and Excel sheets.
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Fastmarkets has been publishing short-term forecasts via our Tracker PDF and Excel spreadsheets for more than 40 years and delivering them via Metal Bulletin Research. With our short-term forecasting now on the Fastmarkets platform, you get an integrated service with prices over a single delivery platform in a digital format.
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Participants in the market for copper scrap and blister in China, the world’s largest importer of copper raw materials, expect there to be fiercer competition for material in 2025, industry sources told Fastmarkets in the week to Thursday January 9.
The biggest threat to keeping carbon emissions low in the steel industry is imports flowing in from regions where there is a lack of focus on emissions reduction, Kevin Dempsey, president and chief executive officer of the American Iron and Steel Institute, said at Fastmarkets’ second annual Circular Steel Summit on Wednesday January 15 in Houston, Texas.
Africa’s first transcontinental rail network, known as the Lobito Corridor, which aims to eventually connect almost the entire regional copper-cobalt belt with additional links across sub-Saharan Africa, is on track to break ground early in 2026, a senior official at the US Department of State told Fastmarkets.
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