SUBSCRIBER NOTE: End of year publishing and assessment schedule for Platts Metals price reporting

Platts Metals Daily, Platts Steel Business Briefing and Platts Steel Market Daily will not publish on Monday, December 24, 2018; Tuesday, December 25, 2018; Monday, December 31, 2018, and Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Platts Metals Week Price Notification Monthly Report will be published on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.

Normal publishing schedules will resume globally on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.

S&P Global Platts offices in the Americas will be closed Tuesday, December 25, 2018, and Tuesday January 1, 2019, while on Monday, December 24, 2018 and Monday, December 31, 2018 the only assessments published will be the US Aluminum Midwest Transaction Premium and US Aluminum Midwest Transaction Price which will follow an early market close on both days at 12.00 p.m. EST.

For those days where there are assessments but no publications the assessments will be available on Platts Metals Alert only.

S&P Global Platts offices in Europe will be closed Monday, December 24, 2018; Tuesday, December 25, 2018; Wednesday, December 26, 2018; Monday, December 31, 2018, and Tuesday, January 1, 2019. There will be an early market close at 12.30 p.m. GMT on Friday, December 21, 2018 and Friday, December 28, 2018.

S&P Global Platts offices in Asia will be closed Monday, December 24, 2018; Tuesday, December 25, 2018; Monday, December 31, 2018, and Tuesday January 1, 2019. There will be an early market close at 12.30 p.m. GMT+8 on Friday, December 21, 2018, and Friday, December 28, 2018.

For full details of Platts' publishing schedule and services affected, refer to www.spglobal.com. Please send any comments or questions to pricegroup@spglobal.com.