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Our automotive customers get access to in-depth price data and short- and long-term forecasting and analysis for the following raw materials
Our battery raw materials analytics include a Battery Recycling Outlook and Battery Cost Index. We continue to expand our coverage as the global automotive market evolves.
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Breaking news and market-reflective commodity prices, even when markets are at their most volatile.
Commodities covered: Steel, scrap, base and minor metals, ores and alloys, industrial minerals, pallets, rare earths, packaging, biofuels, hides and leather
Analysis of the forces moving your markets and how they’ll play out over the next 1-2 years.
Commodities covered: Steel, scrap, base and minor metals, ores and alloys, industrial minerals, rare earths, packaging
5- and 15-year forecasts underpinned by deep industry expertise, macroeconomic analysis and 50 years of historical data.
Commodities covered: Battery raw materials
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Price volatility is nothing new for procurement professionals familiar with the vagaries of global commodity markets. And yet, recent price volatility is straining material management processes and supplier relationships.
Fastmarkets helps automakers anticipate and hedge against price risk and put in place more robust pricing practices.
Market complexity, dependence on imports from distant shores, supply insecurity, accessing new subsidies driven by the Inflation Reduction Act and the EU Battery Directive, unanticipated changes in regulation, recycling mandates and imperatives — it’s a lot to juggle.
Fastmarkets gives automakers access to a network of expert price reporters and analysts, deeply immersed in their markets. Our news and analysis services bring their insights to you in real time.
Every link of the automotive supply chain has been tested to its limits in recent years. When the business turns to the planning and strategy team to predict the market’s next move, that team turns to Fastmarkets.
Fastmarkets equips automakers with up-to-date market analysis, coverage of the latest news and trends moving the market and access to experts. Our in-depth analysis of the EV value chain includes cost differentials as well as prices, forecasts and subsidy impacts for the US, Europe, China and the rest of Asia.
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Automakers have long relied on Fastmarkets’ price data, news and analysis to inform their procurement strategies and manage risk for traditional automotive raw materials such as leather, steel and aluminium. Automakers now also partner with Fastmarkets to inform their electrification and sustainability strategies, leveraging our expertise in battery raw materials and rare earths, green metals and more.
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Our team of commodity market experts and price reporters provide weekly prices and market analysis for the automotive industry.
Falling prices have been the dominant theme in the rare earths industry in 2024. A steep slump at the start of the year capped two years of price declines that have slashed profits and upended processing margins. Fastmarkets reached out to market experts to gather insight on the outlook for 2025 and the factors and […]
“Trump Tariffs” will be back in 2025 and commodities markets are bracing for the impact.
An accident on the major Moselle river earlier this week has led to some steel companies based in Germany and neighbouring countries scrambling for alternative logistical solutions to complete orders and source raw materials, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday December 11.
The Exchange for Physical (EFP) process in the futures market allows companies to manage commodity price risk by exchanging futures contracts for physical commodities, providing flexibility, price certainty, and operational efficiency.
Japan’s government has announced plans to make carbon trading, a system of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions quotas, mandatory for high-emission firms from the 2026 fiscal year, which could have far-reaching consequences for Asian steelmakers, sources told Fastmarkets in the week to Friday November 29.
Get the key takeaways from our recent webinar on the global outlook for the battery raw materials (BRM) market in 2025.
Here are the key takeaways from market participants on US ferrous scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our December survey.
A second Trump administration would reorient US critical minerals policy to prioritize security over climate concerns, former inaugural US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Frank Fannon said during a fireside chat at the Resourcing Tomorrow conference in London on Tuesday December 3.
More than 500 delegates turned out on Thursday December 5 to hear an update on the state of the US green steel industry during Fastmarkets’ inaugural ‘going green’ webinar.
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