SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Platts changes Rotterdam premiums frequency

S&P Global Platts has changed the frequency of all of its in-warehouse Rotterdam zinc, tin and lead assessments from to monthly from weekly, effective August 5, 2016, to better align price assessment frequency with spot market liquidity and trading patterns, in response to market feedback. Each affected assessment will be published on the third Wednesday of each month, instead of weekly on Fridays, with the first date for monthly assessments being August 17, 2016.

The Platts assessments affected by this change are as follows: Lead 99.985% Premium Rotterdam (code MMAYV04); European physical lead IW Rotterdam (all-in price) (MMAMS00); Zinc SHG Premium Rotterdam (MMAYN04); European physical SHG zinc IW Rotterdam (all-in price) (MMALC00); Tin 99.85% Premium Rotterdam (MMAYM04); Tin 99.90% Premium Rotterdam (MMAYL04); Tin Europe 99.85% IW Rotterdam (all-in price) (MMANS04); and Tin Europe 99.90% IW Rotterdam (all-in price) (MMANT04).

Please submit any further feedback, comments or questions on this methodology change to: Henry Van, henry.van@spglobal.com and Ben Kilbey, ben.kilbey@spglobal.com, with a cc to pricemethodology@spglobal.com. For written comments, please provide a clear indication if comments are not intended for publication by Platts for public viewing. Platts will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.