The publication of Fastmarkets’ European cobalt price assessments on Thursday August 27 was delayed due to technical issues.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue the publication of its trade logs for two Chinese fob vanadium price assessments.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ European cobalt price assessments for August 27 will be delayed because of a technical issue.

Fastmarkets proposes to change the publication day of two of its Chinese ferro-chrome price assessments to Tuesday, from Friday.

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the specifications of its premium hard coking coal indices to align more closely with the most prominent low-vol products traded in the spot market. These amendments will apply to both the fob DBCT and cfr Jingtang indices.

Fastmarkets will launch two new European high-carbon ferro-chrome price assessments on Tuesday October 27 this year, which will run alongside the existing price assessment until the end of 2021.

Fastmarkets will launch a weekly price assessment for ferro-tungsten basis 75% W fob China on Wednesday April 14.

Fastmarkets has today amended its price assessments for ferro-vanadium and vanadium pentoxide, both in the fob China market.

Fastmarkets has decided not to proceed with the proposed amendment of the specifications of the indices for (MB-COA-0003) premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT, $/tonne and (MB-COA-0005) premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang, $/tonne, due to changes in spot market conditions.

Fastmarkets will discontinue its tin ingot premiums on a seaborne basis to China from the start of January.