Delay to July ferrous scrap settlements

Fastmarkets advises that, as of Wednesday July 10, certain monthly North American ferrous scrap assessments had yet to be settled.

Fastmarkets typically settles these markets on or before the 10th of the month but will be delaying publication due to delays in settlements.

The markets not settled by Wednesday include:

• Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Hamilton, Ontario
• Ferrous scrap domestic consumer buying prices, Montreal
• Ferrous scrap consumer buying trend, Seattle-Portland
• Ferrous scrap consumer buying prices, Cincinnatti

To provide feedback on this notice, please contact Amy Hinton by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading: “FAO: Amy Hinton, re: ferrous scrap prices.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all of Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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