Platts to discontinue European nickel, zinc assessments

Following a period of industry feedback, S&P Global Platts has decided to proceed with the discontinuation of two monthly price assessments for the European zinc market and two weekly prices for the European and Russian nickel markets from July 6, 2021, due to a lack of liquidity and changes in product flow and buying patterns.

The last assessment day for the monthly zinc assessments will be Wednesday, June 17, and the last day for the weekly nickel assessments will be Friday, July 2.

Platts originally proposed the discontinuation in the subscriber note, published March 18, 2021: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/our-methodology/subscriber-notes/031821-sampp-global-platts-proposes-to-discontinue-european-nickel-zinc-assessments.

Details of the assessments for discontinuation are as follows:

The nickel and zinc assessments are published in Platts Metals Daily, on page 0415 and 0416, respectively, of Platts Metals Alert and Platts Non Ferrous Metals Alert, in the Platts Market Center and in the Platts price database under the codes listed above.

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