Platts discontinues five US minor metals assessments

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

The final assessments were published Sept. 1, 2020, and the discontinuation was effective Sept. 8, 2020.

Platts originally proposed the discontinuation in the subscriber note, published June 5, 2020: www.spglobal.com

Details of the assessments proposed for discontinuation are as follows:

These assessments were 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.

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