Platts to discontinue five US minor metals assessments

Following a period of industry feedback, S&P Global Platts has decided to proceed with the discontinuation of five US minor metals assessments, due to diminished spot liquidity and changes in product flow and buying patterns.

These assessments will be discontinued, effective September 10, 2020, with the final assessments published on September 3, 2020.

Platts originally proposed the discontinuation in the subscriber note, published June 5, 2020: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/our-methodology/subscriber-notes/060520-sampp-global-platts-considers-discontinuation-of-five-us-minor-metals-assessments

Details of the assessments for discontinuation are as follows:

These assessments are published on the realtime Platts Metals Alert pages 359 and 362, in Metals Daily, on Platts Market Center and in the Platts price database under the above-mentioned codes.

Please send any comments or questions to PL_Americas_Metals@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com

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