2023 market outlooks

Discover what's ahead with Fastmarkets' market intelligence and insights into 2023 and beyond

From tight availability in the scrap market to the impact of Europe’s energy crisis on the global tissue market, our editorial and reporting team have taken a deep dive into what lies ahead for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new generation energy markets.

With volatility being one of the key themes in the battery materials markets for 2022, it’s all the more important to get a clear understanding of what to expect in the next 12 months. Fastmarkets can help you navigate these fast-moving markets with price data, news and market intelligence.

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Understand how Europe’s energy crisis is impacting tissue producers as they face cost and availability issues in the second article of our multi-part series

Growing uncertainty about end-user demand and input costs through 2022 has driven a change in consumer habits in Europe’s aluminium and steel markets, with traders foreseeing a continuation of hand-to-mouth buying going into 2023

Volatility was one of the main themes for cobalt prices in 2022 and market participants will take a wait-and-see approach toward long-term supply contracts in the coming year

The outlook for the steel plate industry in the United States is cloudy for 2023 due to three conflicting factors: more incoming supply, expectations for stronger demand and the decoupling of the plate market from hot-rolled coil prices

An intense interest in lithium battery recycling in the US has grown in the past few years, driven by concerns over supply chains, national security, the environment and a growing interest in electric vehicles (EVs)

With global lithium-ion battery production forecast to grow significantly in the coming years, market participants in the global nickel industry are working on the most efficient way to produce nickel sulfate for lithium-ion battery cathodes

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